Resource Exhaustion Affecting eap7-wildfly package, versions <0:7.3.10-2.GA_redhat_00003.1.el7eap


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EAP7WILDFLY-5306517
  • published29 Aug 2021
  • disclosed18 Aug 2021

Introduced: 18 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-37714  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 eap7-wildfly to version 0:7.3.10-2.GA_redhat_00003.1.el7eap or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:5150.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream eap7-wildfly package and not the eap7-wildfly package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

jsoup is a Java library for working with HTML. Those using jsoup versions prior to 1.14.2 to parse untrusted HTML or XML may be vulnerable to DOS attacks. If the parser is run on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to get stuck (loop indefinitely until cancelled), to complete more slowly than usual, or to throw an unexpected exception. This effect may support a denial of service attack. The issue is patched in version 1.14.2. There are a few available workarounds. Users may rate limit input parsing, limit the size of inputs based on system resources, and/or implement thread watchdogs to cap and timeout parse runtimes.

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