Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting tomcat package, versions [,5.5.35)[6.0.0, 6.0.35)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
12.97% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382395
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jan 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jan 2012

CVE-2012-0022  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 5.5.35, 6.0.35 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.35, 6.x before 6.0.34, and 7.x before 7.0.23 uses an inefficient approach for handling parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a request that contains many parameters and parameter values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4858.

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