Apache Tomcat 8.5.x < 8.5.31 Denial of Service

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 700694

Synopsis

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

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the Apache Tomcat instance listening on the remote host is 8.5.x earlier to 8.5.31. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability:

- A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in Tomcat due to improper overflow handling in the UTF-8 decoder. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue to cause an infinite loop in the decoder, leading to a denial of service condition.

Note that Nessus Network Monitor has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Apache Tomcat version 8.5.31 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 700694

Family: Web Servers

Published: 5/13/2019

Updated: 5/13/2019

Nessus ID: 121124

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: 5/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1336

BID: 104898

Detections

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