Improper Input Validation Affecting tomcat package, versions [0,8.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
10.66% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382425
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 May 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 May 2014

CVE-2014-0095  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 8.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation java/org/apache/coyote/ajp/AbstractAjpProcessor.java in Apache Tomcat 8.x before 8.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread consumption) by using a "Content-Length: 0" AJP request to trigger a hang in request processing.

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