Resource Exhaustion Affecting tomcat-webapps package, versions <1:9.0.87-1.el9_2.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-TOMCATWEBAPPS-8179403
  • published10 Oct 2024
  • disclosed23 Sept 2024

Introduced: 23 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-38286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 tomcat-webapps to version 1:9.0.87-1.el9_2.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:5696.

NVD Description

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

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M20, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.24, from 9.0.13 through 9.0.89. Older, unsupported versions may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M21, 10.1.25, or 9.0.90, which fixes the issue.

Apache Tomcat, under certain configurations on any platform, allows an attacker to cause an OutOfMemoryError by abusing the TLS handshake process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1