Resource exhaustion via unchecked servlet-part fallback
Published Aug 31, 2026 · Updated Sep 1, 2026
Resource allocation flaws in Apache Wicket 8.0.0 through 10.10.0 allow remote attackers to exhaust resources via multipart uploads. The servlet-part fallback wraps results from HttpServletRequest#getParts() without reapplying configured per-file size or file-count limits, and headerless parts are read fully into memory. The path requires prior multipart parsing plus an application-configured per-file or count limit; oversized or excess-count files then consume storage or memory within external parser limits.
Summary
What happened
Resource allocation flaws in Apache Wicket 8.0.0 through 10.10.0 allow remote attackers to exhaust resources via multipart uploads. The servlet-part fallback wraps results from HttpServletRequest#getParts() without reapplying configured per-file size or file-count limits, and headerless parts are read fully into memory. The path requires prior multipart parsing plus an application-configured per-file or count limit; oversized or excess-count files then consume storage or memory within external parser limits.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-71257
- Published
- Aug 31, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 1, 2026
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Wicket
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 31, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 1, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.0 <=10.10.0
- Affected versionversion=8.0.0 <=8.18.0
- Affected versionversion=9.0.0 <=9.23.0
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