VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-3171

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.03%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-12-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in EAP-7 during deserialization of certain classes, which permits instantiation of HashMap and HashTable with no checks on resources consumed. This issue could allow an attacker to submit malicious requests using these classes, which could eventually exhaust the heap and result in a Denial of Service.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-789
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-770

Primary references