Server denial of service via unbounded management sockets
Published May 2, 2024 · Updated Jun 26, 2026
Resource exhaustion in WildFly Core before 24.0.1.Final allows local users to interrupt WildFly-based server availability. The HTTP management listener accepts connections without a configurable socket cap or timeout, so open connections consume descriptors until the nofile limit is reached. Exploitation requires high privileges and local access to the normally internal management interface, and the resulting exhaustion denies new server operations.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in WildFly Core before 24.0.1.Final allows local users to interrupt WildFly-based server availability. The HTTP management listener accepts connections without a configurable socket cap or timeout, so open connections consume descriptors until the nofile limit is reached. Exploitation requires high privileges and local access to the normally internal management interface, and the resulting exhaustion denies new server operations.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-4029
- Published
- May 2, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 26, 2026
- Vendor
- WildFly
- Product
- WildFly Core
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.003
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 2, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <24.0.1.Final
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