Undertow FormEncodedDataDefinition.doParse denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Undertow. Impacted is the function FormEncodedDataDefinition.doParse. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-3884. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Undertow (affected version not known). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function FormEncodedDataDefinition.doParse. 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. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in Undertow that can cause remote denial of service attacks. When the server uses the FormEncodedDataDefinition.doParse(StreamSourceChannel) method to parse large form data encoding with application/x-www-form-urlencoded, the method will cause an OutOfMemory issue. This flaw allows unauthorized users to cause a remote denial of service (DoS) attack.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-3884 since 04/16/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 277447 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-3884), 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 (277447), EUVD (EUVD-2024-32452) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-0054). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 277447
Nessus Name: Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-3884

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

04/16/2024 CVE reserved
12/03/2025 +596 days Advisory disclosed
12/03/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
01/09/2026 +37 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: access.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-3884 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-3884
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-334196
EUVD: 🔒
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2026-0054 - Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (Undertow): Mehrere Schwachstellen

Entryinfo

Created: 12/03/2025 23:35
Updated: 01/09/2026 23:15
Changes: 12/03/2025 23:35 (60), 12/04/2025 20:28 (2), 12/05/2025 05:49 (1), 01/09/2026 23:15 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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