High severity · published Jul 12, 2021
CVE-2021-30639
A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to remotely trigger a denial of service
7.5
CVSS
6.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
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)6.9% · higher than 94% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TO
Tomcat · Apache
8.5.64; 9.0.44; 10.0.3; 10.0.4 · source: NVD
BD
Big Data Spatial And Graph · Oracle
before 23.1 · source: NVD
EO
Epolicy Orchestrator · Mcafee
before 5.10.0; 5.10.0; 5.10.0; 5.10.0; 5.10.0; 5.10.0; +6 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-30639
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-30639
Third Party Advisory
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10366
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79a7c019712b39aedf7cf4da9276d80610f04441b2a4f6506cb2daaf%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79a7c019712b39aedf7cf4da9276d80610f04441b2a4f6506cb2daaf%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd84fae1f474597bdf358f5bdc0a5c453c507bd527b83e8be6b5ea3f4%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-34
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0007/
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