4.1Medium
CVE-2024-4029
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.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it only with access to the machine itself, with an administrator login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.3% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 17% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 4.1 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Assigned by
- secalert@redhat.com
Dates
- Published
- 2024-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-09-24
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8075
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8076
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8077
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8080
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8823
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8824
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8826
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4029
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278615
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x7g6-rwhc-g7mj
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/pull/17914
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/pull/17935
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4029
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278615