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Apache Tomcat Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 10, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 11, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 9.0.70, < 9.0.81
>= 8.5.85, < 8.5.94

Patched versions

9.0.81
8.5.94

Description

Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.

The internal fork of Commons FileUpload packaged with Apache Tomcat 9.0.70 through 9.0.80 and 8.5.85 through 8.5.93 included an unreleased, in progress refactoring that exposed a potential denial of service on Windows if a web application opened a stream for an uploaded file but failed to close the stream. The file would never be deleted from disk creating the possibility of an eventual denial of service due to the disk being full.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.81 onwards or 8.5.94 onwards, which fixes the issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 10, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 10, 2023
Reviewed Oct 10, 2023
Last updated Dec 11, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.059%
(26th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-42794

GHSA ID

GHSA-jm7m-8jh6-29hp

Source code

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