GHSA-wph7-x527-w3h5HighCVSS 7.5

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Apache Tomcat

Published
October 15, 2021
Last Modified
March 11, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The fix for bug 63362 present in Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M5, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.11, 9.0.40 to 9.0.53 and 8.5.60 to 8.5.71 introduced a memory leak. The object introduced to collect metrics for HTTP upgrade connections was not released for WebSocket connections once the connection was closed. This created a memory leak that, over time, could lead to a denial of service via an OutOfMemoryError.

🎯 Affected products4

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 10.1.0-M1, <= 10.1.0-M5
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 10.0.0-M1, < 10.0.12
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 9.0.40, < 9.0.54
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.5.60, < 8.5.72

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