Incomplete Cleanup Affecting tomcat-lib package, versions <1:9.0.62-37.el9_3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-TOMCATLIB-5963564
  • published13 Oct 2023
  • disclosed10 Oct 2023

Introduced: 10 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-42794  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-459  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 tomcat-lib to version 1:9.0.62-37.el9_3.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:0474.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-lib package and not the tomcat-lib package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.

The internal fork of Commons FileUpload packaged with Apache Tomcat 9.0.70 through 9.0.80 and 8.5.85 through 8.5.93 included an unreleased, in progress refactoring that exposed a potential denial of service on Windows if a web application opened a stream for an uploaded file but failed to close the stream. The file would never be deleted from disk creating the possibility of an eventual denial of service due to the disk being full.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.81 onwards or 8.5.94 onwards, which fixes the issue.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1