GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-59g9-7gfx-c72p Infinite loop in Tomcat due to parsing error

HIGH Published 2021-09-20 Modified 2021-10-18 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-41079
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-835
Reviewed
2021-09-17

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.4 → fixed in 10.0.4 • Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 9.0.0, < 9.0.44 → fixed in 9.0.44 • Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 8.5.0, < 8.5.64 → fixed in 8.5.64

Description

Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.63, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.43 and 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.2 did not properly validate incoming TLS packets. When Tomcat was configured to use NIO+OpenSSL or NIO2+OpenSSL for TLS, a specially crafted packet could be used to trigger an infinite loop resulting in a denial of service.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-41079 Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.63, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.43 and 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.2 did not properly validate incoming TLS packets. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References