Unauthenticated service crash via unbounded parameter names
Published Jan 30, 2026 · Updated Jan 30, 2026
Denial of service in Undertow servlets in affected Red Hat products allows remote attackers to crash services with oversized parameter names. HttpServletRequestImpl.getParameterNames() materializes attacker-controlled names while the default maximum entity size is unlimited, allowing heap allocation to end in OutOfMemoryError. Any unauthenticated request path backed by a servlet that invokes this method can exhaust the JVM heap and interrupt the hosting service; other endpoints are not established as reachable.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Undertow servlets in affected Red Hat products allows remote attackers to crash services with oversized parameter names. HttpServletRequestImpl.getParameterNames() materializes attacker-controlled names while the default maximum entity size is unlimited, allowing heap allocation to end in OutOfMemoryError. Any unauthenticated request path backed by a servlet that invokes this method can exhaust the JVM heap and interrupt the hosting service; other endpoints are not established as reachable.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-4027
- Published
- Jan 30, 2026
- Updated
- Jan 30, 2026
- Vendor
- 389 Directory Server
- Product
- Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 30, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 30, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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