Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.6]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.03% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30921
  • published10 Jun 2015
  • disclosed10 Feb 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Feb 2011

CVE-2011-0534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.30 does not enforce the maxHttpHeaderSize limit for requests involving the NIO HTTP connector, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OutOfMemoryError) via a crafted request.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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