Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [9.0.13,9.0.90) [10.1.0-M1,10.1.25) [11.0.0-M1,11.0.0-M21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-8073090
  • published 24 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 22 Sep 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 9.0.90, 10.1.25, 11.0.0-M21 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core is a Core Tomcat implementation.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the unwrap() function in SecureNio2Channel class, during a TLS handshake. Under certain configurations using TLS 1.3, an attacker can trigger an OutOfMemoryError.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None