Red Hat WildFly EAP Management Interface denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat WildFly and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component EAP Management Interface. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-4029. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat WildFly (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component EAP Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability was found in Wildfly’s management interface. Due to the lack of limitation of sockets for the management interface, it may be possible to cause a denial of service hitting the nofile limit as there is no possibility to configure or set a maximum number of connections.

The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-4029 since 04/22/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/16/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209012 (RHEL 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.19 Security update (Important) (RHSA-2024:8077)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (209012) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-1854). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.2

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VulDB Temp Score: 4.3
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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 209012
Nessus Name: RHEL 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.19 Security update (Important) (RHSA-2024:8077)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

04/22/2024 🔍
05/02/2024 +10 days 🔍
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09/16/2025 +502 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-4029 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-4029
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-262853
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/02/2024 15:30
Updated: 09/16/2025 05:59
Changes: 05/02/2024 15:30 (51), 10/15/2024 03:53 (14), 10/15/2024 07:55 (2), 09/16/2025 05:59 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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