CVE-2024-4029 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.1) CWE-770 vulnerability in org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-http. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Wildfly: no timeout for eap management interface may lead to denial of service (dos)
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-4029.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-4029 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,636 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-httpReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Maven packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
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.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕Maven | org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-http | all versions | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-http, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
No patched version of org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-http has shipped for CVE-2024-4029 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Mitigate without a patch
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2024-4029 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2024-4029. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
Red Hat rates this as a Low impact since this requires high privileges to jeopardize the system. The management interface is normally internal/local only and not exposed externally.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 | wildfly-domain-http | RHSA-2024:8080 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 | eap7-hal-console-0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | RHSA-2024:8076 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 | eap7-hal-console-0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap | RHSA-2024:8077 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7 | eap7-hal-console-0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | RHSA-2024:8075 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 | wildfly-domain-http | RHSA-2024:8826 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8 | eap8-activemq-artemis-0:2.33.0-1.redhat_00015.1.el8eap | RHSA-2024:8823 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9 | eap8-activemq-artemis-0:2.33.0-1.redhat_00015.1.el9eap | RHSA-2024:8824 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-4029 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2024-4029 across Maven dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.