Server crash via orphaned write-timeout tasks
Published Feb 19, 2024 · Updated Aug 4, 2026
Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Undertow 1.31.0 allows remote attackers to crash supporting servers via rapid HTTP connection closures. During an HTTP upgrade to remoting, WriteTimeoutStreamSinkConduit fails to remove its XNIO timeout task when RemotingConnection closes, retaining the conduit and connection tree. Exposure requires wildfly-http-client protocol support and a configured write timeout; repeated unauthenticated closures exhaust memory and open-file limits.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Undertow 1.31.0 allows remote attackers to crash supporting servers via rapid HTTP connection closures. During an HTTP upgrade to remoting, WriteTimeoutStreamSinkConduit fails to remove its XNIO timeout task when RemotingConnection closes, retaining the conduit and connection tree. Exposure requires wildfly-http-client protocol support and a configured write timeout; repeated unauthenticated closures exhaust memory and open-file limits.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-1635
- Published
- Feb 19, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2026
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Red Hat Process Automation 7
- Classifications
- CWE-400, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 19, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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