Improper Input Validation Affecting tomcat package, versions [,7.0.70)[8.0.0, 8.0.36)[8.5.0, 8.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
29.98% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382329
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Jul 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-3092  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.70, 8.0.36, 8.5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The MultipartStream class in Apache Commons Fileupload before 1.3.2, as used in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.70, 8.x before 8.0.36, 8.5.x before 8.5.3, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M7 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long boundary string.

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