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CVE-2021-30639: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

August 13, 2021 (updated February 8, 2022)

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-44qp-qhfv-c7f6
  • kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10366
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79a7c019712b39aedf7cf4da9276d80610f04441b2a4f6506cb2daaf@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79a7c019712b39aedf7cf4da9276d80610f04441b2a4f6506cb2daaf@%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd84fae1f474597bdf358f5bdc0a5c453c507bd527b83e8be6b5ea3f4%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-30639
  • security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0007/
  • www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 10.0.3 before 10.0.5, all versions starting from 9.0.0 before 9.0.45, all versions before 8.5.65

Fixed versions

  • 10.0.5
  • 9.0.45
  • 8.5.65

Solution

Upgrade to versions 10.0.5, 9.0.45, 8.5.65 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Source file

maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed/tomcat-embed-core/CVE-2021-30639.yml

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