High severity · published Jul 4, 2016
CVE-2016-3092
The MultipartStream class in Apache Commons Fileupload before 1.3.2, as used in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.70, 8.x before 8.0.36, 8.5.x before 8.5.3, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M7 and…
7.5
CVSS
37.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The MultipartStream class in Apache Commons Fileupload before 1.3.2, as used in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.70, 8.x before 8.0.36, 8.5.x before 8.5.3, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M7 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long boundary string.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)37.2% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TO
Tomcat · Apache
9.0.0; 9.0.0; 9.0.0; 9.0.0; 8.0.0; 8.0.0; +34 more · source: NVD
CF
Commons Fileupload · Apache
through 1.3.1 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
II
Icewall Identity Manager · HP
5.0 · source: NVD
IS
Icewall Sso Agent Option · HP
10.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
12.04; 14.04; 15.10; 16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3092
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3092
Vendor Advisory
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN89379547/index.html
VDB Entry
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000121
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00025.html
Mailing List
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201606.mbox/%3CCAF8HOZ%2BPq2QH8RnxBuJyoK1dOz6jrTiQypAC%2BH8g6oZkBg%2BCxg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2068.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2069.html
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