CVE-2023-42794
Severity
6.5
Description
Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.
The internal fork of Commons FileUpload packaged with Apache Tomcat 9.0.70 through 9.0.80 and 8.5.85 through 8.5.93 included an unreleased,
in progress refactoring that exposed a potential denial of service on
Windows if a web application opened a stream for an uploaded file but failed to close the stream. The file would never be deleted from disk creating the possibility of an eventual denial of service due to the disk being full.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.81 onwards or 8.5.94 onwards, which fixes the issue.
Mitigation
We recommend upgrading to a version of this component that is not vulnerable to this specific issue.
Note: If this component is included as a bundled/transitive dependency of another component, there may not be an upgrade path. In this instance, we recommend contacting the maintainers who included the vulnerable package. Alternatively, we recommend investigating alternative components or a potential mitigating control.
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Project
Category
CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup
Tags
data, operational
Date Disclosed
2023-10-10
Date Discovered
2023-09-14
Apache Tomcat 9.0.x
First release:
2018-01-18
Support Lifecycle:
Maintenance Support
Namespace:
javax
9.0.70 9.0.71 9.0.72 9.0.73 9.0.74 9.0.75 9.0.76 9.0.78 9.0.79 9.0.80
Apache Tomcat 8.5.x
First release:
2016-06-13
Support Lifecycle:
Maintenance Support
Namespace:
javax
8.5.85 8.5.86 8.5.87 8.5.88 8.5.91 8.5.92 8.5.93
Apache TomEE 8.0.x
First release:
2019-09-13
Support Lifecycle:
Full Support
Namespace:
javax