CVE-2024-4029: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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.
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Technical Summary
The vulnerability CVE-2024-4029 affects the Wildfly management interface component of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4. It is caused by the absence of a configurable maximum number of socket connections, which can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service by hitting the system's nofile limit. The issue is addressed in the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.19 update for both RHEL 7 and RHEL 8, which includes fixes to implement timeouts and limit connections on the management interface. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 4.1, reflecting a medium severity denial of service vulnerability requiring high privileges and local access.
Potential Impact
An attacker with high privileges and local access can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service by exhausting the maximum number of open file descriptors (nofile limit) on the system, impacting availability of the Wildfly management interface. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official security update is available from Red Hat in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.19 for RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 that fixes this vulnerability by adding connection limits and timeouts to the management interface. Users should apply this update following Red Hat's guidance and ensure all previous relevant errata are applied. Backup of existing installations is recommended before applying the update. Patch status is confirmed by Red Hat advisories RHSA-2024:8075 and RHSA-2024:8076.
CVE-2024-4029: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Description
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.1medium
Affected software
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2024-4029 affects the Wildfly management interface component of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4. It is caused by the absence of a configurable maximum number of socket connections, which can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service by hitting the system's nofile limit. The issue is addressed in the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.19 update for both RHEL 7 and RHEL 8, which includes fixes to implement timeouts and limit connections on the management interface. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 4.1, reflecting a medium severity denial of service vulnerability requiring high privileges and local access.
Potential Impact
An attacker with high privileges and local access can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service by exhausting the maximum number of open file descriptors (nofile limit) on the system, impacting availability of the Wildfly management interface. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official security update is available from Red Hat in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.19 for RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 that fixes this vulnerability by adding connection limits and timeouts to the management interface. Users should apply this update following Red Hat's guidance and ensure all previous relevant errata are applied. Backup of existing installations is recommended before applying the update. Patch status is confirmed by Red Hat advisories RHSA-2024:8075 and RHSA-2024:8076.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2024-04-22T13:59:47.506Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Vendor Advisory Urls
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Threat ID: 68faafd950358b89bd7bfd45
Added to database: 10/23/2025, 22:44:41 UTC
Last enriched: 06/26/2026, 12:24:25 UTC
Last updated: 07/01/2026, 15:45:34 UTC
Views: 358
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