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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-8073090
  • published24 Sept 2024
  • disclosed22 Sept 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-38286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

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.

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