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Apache Tomcat Denial of Service vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 22, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (Maven)

Affected versions

< 6.0.39
>= 8.0.0-RC1, < 8.0.0-RC10
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.50

Patched versions

6.0.39
8.0.0-RC10
7.0.50

Description

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 processes chunked transfer coding without properly handling (1) a large total amount of chunked data or (2) whitespace characters in an HTTP header value within a trailer field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by streaming data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3544.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 26, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Aug 17, 2023
Last updated Feb 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

91.834%
(99th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2013-4322

GHSA ID

GHSA-wq2p-q66w-q8gp

Source code

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