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Undertow OutOfMemory when parsing form data encoding with application/x-www-form-urlencoded

GHSA-6h4f-pj3g-q8fq · CVE-2024-3884

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Description

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.

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