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Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 13, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 23, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-websocket (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 11.0.0-M1, <= 11.0.0-M16
>= 10.1.0-M1, <= 10.1.18
>= 9.0.0-M1, <= 9.0.85
>= 8.5.0, <= 8.5.98

Patched versions

11.0.0-M17
10.1.19
9.0.86
8.5.99
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-websocket (Maven)
>= 11.0.0-M1, <= 11.0.0-M16
>= 10.1.0-M1, <= 10.1.18
>= 9.0.0-M1, <= 9.0.85
>= 8.5.0, <= 8.5.98
11.0.0-M17
10.1.19
9.0.86
8.5.99

Description

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 13, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 13, 2024
Reviewed Mar 14, 2024
Last updated Jun 23, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.044%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-23672

GHSA ID

GHSA-v682-8vv8-vpwr

Source code

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