CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-15561

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

In EAP undertow HTTP/1.1 chunked-transfer decoder, missing limits on size and count allow an attacker to use an unauthenticated connection to drive the JVM to an OutOfMemory error, stopping all deployments on the listener and achieving denial of service.

Risk Assessment

Risk of all applications on the server being stopped due to memory exhaustion, leading to complete service unavailability.

Recommendation

Apply vendor patches that add limits to chunked transfer size and count, and consider rate limiting connections.

Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in EAP's undertow http/1.1 chunked-transfer decoder. missing limits on size and count would allow an attacker to use an unauthenticated connection to drive the JVM to an OutOfMemory error, stopping all deployments on the listener, and achieving Denial of Service.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS