A flaw was found in EAP-7 during deserialization of certain classes, which permits instantiation of HashMap and HashTable with no checks on resources consumed. This issue could allow an attacker to submit malicious requests using these classes, which could eventually exhaust the heap and result in a Denial of Service.
CVE-2023-3171
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-12-27. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 53.9%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
December 27, 2023
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (12)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5484
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5485
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5486
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5488
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3171
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213639
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5484
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5485
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5486
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5488
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3171
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213639
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-3171(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | eap7-xalan-j2-0:2.7.1-26.redhat_00015.1.ep7.el7 | 2024-11-25 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-xml-security-0:2.2.3-2.redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2024-11-25 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.15.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2023-10-06 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.15.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap | 2023-10-06 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2023-10-05 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.15.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2023-10-05 | 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.
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(4)
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