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CVE-2024-4029: Wildfly: no timeout for eap management interface may lead to denial of service (dos)

A vulnerability was found in Wildfly’s management interface. Due to the lack of limitation of sockets for the management interface, it may be possible to cause a denial of service hitting the nofile limit as there is no possibility to configure or set a maximum number of connections.

MediumCVSS 4.1Not KEV-listedUpdated
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Plain-English summary

CVE-2024-4029 is a denial-of-service issue in WildFly’s management interface. The interface may allow too many sockets without a configurable maximum, potentially exhausting the system’s open-file limit and disrupting availability. Business urgency is moderate because the CVSS vector indicates high privileges, high complexity, and local access are required.

Executive priority

Treat as a planned remediation item unless the management interface is broadly reachable or availability is mission-critical. Prioritize patching in production EAP/WildFly environments where privileged administrative access is shared or weakly controlled.

Technical view

The issue is CWE-770: allocation of resources without limits. WildFly’s management interface lacks a socket limit, which can lead to nofile exhaustion and availability impact. The source bundle lists WildFly 25.0.0.Final and Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 package streams for RHEL 8 and 9 as affected, with Red Hat advisories available.

Likely exposure

Most exposure is in environments running WildFly or Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 with management interfaces reachable by privileged local or administrative users. Internet exposure is not established by the provided CVSS vector or sources.

Exploitation context

No active exploitation is cited, and the CVE is not marked KEV in the provided data. CVSS 4.1 reflects local access, high attack complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction, and high availability impact.

Researcher notes

The public record describes resource exhaustion through unbounded management-interface sockets, not confidentiality or integrity compromise. Evidence is strongest for availability impact. Provided sources do not establish a weaponized exploit, broad remote reachability, or a standalone configuration workaround.

Mitigation direction

  • Apply relevant Red Hat RHSA updates for affected JBoss EAP 7.4 RHEL 8 or 9 packages.
  • Check WildFly project guidance and referenced pull requests for upstream fix status.
  • Restrict management interface access to trusted administrative networks and users.
  • Monitor systems for file descriptor exhaustion and abnormal management-interface connection growth.

Validation and detection

  • Inventory WildFly and JBoss EAP deployments and versions.
  • Compare installed EAP packages with Red Hat CVE and RHSA affected package data.
  • Confirm management interfaces are not broadly reachable.
  • Review availability incidents for nofile exhaustion or socket saturation symptoms.
Prepared
Confidence
high
Sources
12

Public sources used

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Potential ATT&CK relevance

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Vulnerability profileCVE Program record
Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.1 (3.1)
Known Exploited
No
Published

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Official CVE source material

CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5

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1CVSS vectors
5Timeline events
2ADP providers
13Source links

SSVC decision data

CISA-ADPCISA Coordinator
Timestamp
Version
2.0.3
Exploitation: noneAutomatable: noTechnical Impact: partial

CVSS vector scores

1 official score

We collect every scored CVSS vector available in the official CNA and ADP containers. When more than one version is present, the table keeps the source vectors side by side instead of collapsing them into the highest score.

ScoreVersionSeverityVectorExploitImpactSource
4.1CVSS 3.1MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H0.53.6redhat

Vulnerability scoring details

Base CVSS 3.1 score

4.1Medium
CVSS 3.1 vector shape for CVE-2024-4029Attack VectorAttack ComplexityPrivileges RequiredUser InteractionScopeConfidentiality ImpactIntegrity ImpactAvailability Impact

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NetworkAdjacentLocalPhysical
Attack Complexity
LowHigh
Privileges Required
NoneLowHigh
User Interaction
NoneRequired
Scope
ChangedUnchanged
Confidentiality Impact
HighLowNone
Integrity Impact
HighLowNone
Availability Impact
HighLowNone

Vulnerability timeline

Timeline events are normalized from CVE metadata, CNA source timelines, ADP timelines, and KEV metadata when present.

  1. Source timelineredhat

    Reported to Red Hat.

  2. CVE reservedCVE Program

    The CVE ID was reserved by the assigning CNA.

  3. Source timelineredhat

    Made public.

  4. CVE publishedCVE Program

    The CVE record was published.

  5. CVE updatedCVE Program

    The CVE record metadata indicates this as the latest update time.

ADP provider summaries

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Source materials

Affected products

Products and packages named in the record

VendorProductVersion / packageStatus
Unknown vendorwildflywildfly, 0, 25.0.0.FinalListed
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7wildfly-domain-httpunaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-hal-console, 0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-hibernate-validator, 0:6.0.23-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-insights-java-client, 0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-ironjacamar, 0:1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-jboss-cert-helper, 0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-jboss-ejb-client, 0:4.0.55-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-jboss-server-migration, 0:1.10.0-39.Final_redhat_00039.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-jbossws-cxf, 0:5.4.12-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-jsoup, 0:1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-undertow-jastow, 0:2.0.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-wildfly, 0:7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8eap7-xalan-j2, 0:2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el8eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-hal-console, 0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-hibernate-validator, 0:6.0.23-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-insights-java-client, 0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-ironjacamar, 0:1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-jboss-cert-helper, 0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-jboss-ejb-client, 0:4.0.55-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-jboss-server-migration, 0:1.10.0-39.Final_redhat_00039.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-jbossws-cxf, 0:5.4.12-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-jsoup, 0:1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-undertow-jastow, 0:2.0.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-wildfly, 0:7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9eap7-xalan-j2, 0:2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el9eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7eap7-hal-console, 0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7eap7-hibernate-validator, 0:6.0.23-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7eap7-insights-java-client, 0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eapaffected
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7eap7-ironjacamar, 0:1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eapaffected
Weakness

CWE details

CWE-770

CWE links open Glexia weakness intelligence pages with official CWE context, developer remediation guidance, and related CVE mappings.

CWE-770 · source CWE mapping

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.

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