GHSA-wq2p-q66w-q8gpMedium

Apache Tomcat Denial of Service vulnerability

Published
May 14, 2022
Last Modified
February 22, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:< 6.0.39
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.0.0-RC1, < 8.0.0-RC10
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.50

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