Denial of service in Apache Tomcat

1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

EUVDB-ID: #VU76417

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28709

CWE-ID: CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fox for #VU72427 (CVE-2023-24998). If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be bypassed. A remote attacker can initiate a series of uploads and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Apache Tomcat: 8.5.0 - 11.0.0-M4

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:8.5.87:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:9.0.73:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:10.0.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:10.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:11.0.0-M4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://lists.apache.org/thread/7wvxonzwb7k9hx9jt3q33cmy7j97jo3j

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.