Denial of service in Apache Tomcat

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU57389

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-2021-42340

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak when processing HTTP connections. A remote attacker can initiate multiple HTTP connections with the web server and consume all available memory on the system.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Apache Tomcat: 8.5.0 - 10.1.0-M5

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:8.5.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:9.0.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:10.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_tomcat:10.1.0-M5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

http://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r83a35be60f06aca2065f188ee542b9099695d57ced2e70e0885f905c%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E

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.