Apache Tomcat 9.0.x < 9.0.8 Denial of Service Vulnerability

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 700706

Synopsis

The remote Apache Tomcat server is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in Apache Tomcat, in versions between 9.0.0.M1 and 9.0.7 (inclusive), due to improper overflow handling in the UTF-8 decoder component. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, to cause the application to stop responding.

Solution

Upgrade to Apache Tomcat version 9.0.8 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 700706

Family: Web Servers

Published: 5/13/2019

Updated: 5/13/2019

Nessus ID: 122447

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apache:tomcat

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1336

BID: 104898

Detections

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