Improper Input Validation Affecting tomcat package, versions [,6.0.36)[7.0.0, 7.0.28)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.48% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382349
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-2733  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 6.0.36, 7.0.28 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation java/org/apache/coyote/http11/InternalNioInputBuffer.java in the HTTP NIO connector in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.28 does not properly restrict the request-header size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large amount of header data.

CVSS Scores

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