A flaw was found in Undertow that tripped the client-side invocation timeout with certain calls made over HTTP2. This flaw allows an attacker to carry out denial of service attacks.
CVE-2021-3859
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 50% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 66.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 26, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (12)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3859
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010378
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/commit/e43f0ada3f4da6e8579e0020cec3cb1a81e487c2
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/pull/1296
- secalert@redhathttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/UNDERTOW-1979
- secalert@redhathttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221201-0004/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3859
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010378
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/commit/e43f0ada3f4da6e8579e0020cec3cb1a81e487c2
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/pull/1296
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.redhat.com/browse/UNDERTOW-1979
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221201-0004/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2021-3859(5)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2025:4226Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.10 on RHEL 7 security update
- RHSA-2024:10207Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.11 Security update
- RHSA-2022:5532Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Fuse 7.11.0 release and security update
- RHSA-2022:0447Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5.1 security update on RHEL 7
- RHSA-2022:0448Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5.1 security update on RHEL 8
Patch Availability(12)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | eap7-xml-security-0:2.0.10-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7 | 2025-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-xml-security-0:2.2.3-2.redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2024-11-25 | redhat |
| redhat | undertow | 2022-07-07 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-sso7-keycloak-0:15.0.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el7sso | 2022-02-07 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-sso7-keycloak-0:15.0.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el8sso | 2022-02-07 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-sso-7/sso74-openj9-openshift-rhel8:7.4-59 | 2022-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-undertow-0:2.2.13-1.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2022-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-sso-7/sso7-rhel8-operator-bundle:7.5.1-8 | 2022-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-undertow-0:2.0.41-2.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2022-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | io.undertow/undertow-core:2.2.13.SP2-redhat-00001 | 2022-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-undertow-0:2.2.13-1.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2022-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-sso-7/sso74-openshift-rhel8:7.4-44 | 2022-02-02 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| io.undertow:undertow-core | 1.0.0.Alpha1 ... 2.2.9.Final (283 versions) | 2.2.15 | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(11)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0400IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0400 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0401IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0401 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0404IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0404 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0405IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0405 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0406IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0406 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0407IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0407 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0408IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0408 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0409IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0409 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0410IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0410 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:0415IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:0415 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:1179IMPORTANT2022-02-01
RHSA-2022:1179 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
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