CVE-2021-30639 Information

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

Reference

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd84fae1f474597bdf358f5bdc0a5c453c507bd527b83e8be6b5ea3f4%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79a7c019712b39aedf7cf4da9276d80610f04441b2a4f6506cb2daaf@%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79a7c019712b39aedf7cf4da9276d80610f04441b2a4f6506cb2daaf@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0007/ https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10366 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5