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CVE-2021-41079 (GCVE-0-2021-41079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-16 14:40 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:59
VLAI
Title
Apache Tomcat DoS with unexpected TLS packet
Summary
Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.63, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.43 and 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.2 did not properly validate incoming TLS packets. When Tomcat was configured to use NIO+OpenSSL or NIO2+OpenSSL for TLS, a specially crafted packet could be used to trigger an infinite loop resulting in a denial of service.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat Affected: Apache Tomcat 8.5 8.5.0 to 8.5.63
Affected: Apache Tomcat 9 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.43
Affected: Apache Tomcat 10 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.2
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Credits
The Apache Tomcat security team would like to thank Thomas Wozenilek for originally reporting this issue and David Frankson of Infinite Campus for also providing a test case that reproduced the issue.
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