CVE-2024-5971: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform · Uncontrolled Recursion
Affects Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application PlatformSource CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade to 2.3.15.Final or 2.2.34.Final soon.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC
- EPSS
- 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 86% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 2.3.15.Final, 2.2.34.Final
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 8 Jul 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.
What to do
Upgrade undertow to 2.3.15.Final or 2.2.34.Final.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel 3.20.7 for Spring Boot | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.1 for Spring Boot 3.2 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.2 for Spring Boot | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat Build of Keycloak | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat build of Quarkus | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat Data Grid 8 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat Fuse 7 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat Integration Camel K 1 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat Process Automation 7 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red HatRed Hat Single Sign-On 7 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
GitHubundertowpkg:github/undertowOther threats | Affected
| Fixed in
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AI-suggested
Red Hat has released security updates addressing CVE-2024-5971 in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 and related Undertow components. Users should apply these official patches as per Red Hat's advisories (e.g., RHSA-2024:4392 and RHSA-2024:4884). Before applying updates, ensure all previous errata are applied. Patch status is confirmed as fixed in these advisories. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the vendor-provided updates.
Description
A vulnerability was found in Undertow, where the chunked response hangs after the body was flushed. The response headers and body were sent but the client would continue waiting as Undertow does not send the expected 0\r\n termination of the chunked response. This results in uncontrolled resource consumption, leaving the server side to a denial of service attack. This happens only with Java 17 TLSv1.3 scenarios.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4392 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4884 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5143 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5144 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5145 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5147 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6508 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6883 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5971 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292211 (opens in a new tab)
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240828-0001/ (opens in a new tab)