CVE-2021-30639

DoS after non-blocking IO error

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 12, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Apr 13, 2021

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Description

A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to remotely trigger a denial of service. An error introduced as part of a change to improve error handling during non-blocking I/O meant that the error flag associated with the Request object was not reset between requests. This meant that once a non-blocking I/O error occurred, all future requests handled by that request object would fail. Users were able to trigger non-blocking I/O errors, e.g. by dropping a connection, thereby creating the possibility of triggering a DoS. Applications that do not use non-blocking I/O are not exposed to this vulnerability. This issue affects Apache Tomcat 10.0.3 to 10.0.4; 9.0.44; 8.5.64.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache TomcatApache Software Foundation
  • Apache Tomcat 10 10.0.3 to 10.0.4Affected
  • Apache Tomcat 9 9.0.44Affected
  • Apache Tomcat 8.5 8.5.64Affected

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