CVE-2016-7046

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7, when operating as a reverse-proxy with default buffer sizes, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and disk consumption) via a long URL.

Affected products

Red Hat JBoss EAP: 7.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2640.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2641.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2642.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2657.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93173
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376646
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2640.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2641.html

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