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Medium Public exploit CVE-2003-0866 EUVD-2022-1670GHSA-7wj2-48c4-2684

Apache Tomcat Denial of Service vulnerability in the Catalina package

Published Oct 17, 2003 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat Ecosystem: Maven

Description

The Catalina org.apache.catalina.connector.http package in Tomcat 4.0.x up to 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via several requests that do not follow the HTTP protocol, which causes Tomcat to reject later requests.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 3.0 tomcat4 4.0.3-3woody3 DSA-395

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 4.0, < 4.1.0 4.1.0 GHSA-7wj2-48c4-2684

Advisories 1

References