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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-30639 BIT-tomcat-2021-30639EUVD-2021-1554GHSA-44qp-qhfv-c7f6

DoS after non-blocking IO error

Published Jul 12, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by apache

Description

A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to remotely trigger a denial of service. An error introduced as part of a change to improve error handling during non-blocking I/O meant that the error flag associated with the Request object was not reset between requests. This meant that once a non-blocking I/O error occurred, all future requests handled by that request object would fail. Users were able to trigger non-blocking I/O errors, e.g. by dropping a connection, thereby creating the possibility of triggering a DoS. Applications that do not use non-blocking I/O are not exposed to this vulnerability. This issue affects Apache Tomcat 10.0.3 to 10.0.4; 9.0.44; 8.5.64.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat 10 10.0.3 to 10.0.4, Apache Tomcat 9 9.0.44, Apache Tomcat 8.5 8.5.64 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 10.0.3, < 10.0.5 10.0.5 GHSA-44qp-qhfv-c7f6
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 9.0.0, < 9.0.45 9.0.45 GHSA-44qp-qhfv-c7f6
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat < 8.5.65 8.5.65 GHSA-44qp-qhfv-c7f6

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