Red HatCVE-2026-5680
Red Hat Undertow. A remote attacker: resource exhaustion
High7.5CVE-2026-5680 · Published Aug 27, 2026 · updated Sep 22, 2026
A flaw was found in Undertow. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted WebSocket messages with permessage-deflate negotiated. This could lead to excessive memory consumption due to the PerMessageDeflateFunction.largerBuffer() method using exponential doubling, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected application.
Affected versions
The source does not list versions here. See the source advisory for affected products and fixes.
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5680
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5680
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70228
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70229
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70230
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70277
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-5680
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455350
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