5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). Simultaneous requests to a directory containing a large number of files causes heavy CPU consumption, resulting in a denial of service condition.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
catalina | le | 5.5.12 | |
tomcat-util | le | 5.5.9 | |
servlets-default | le | 5.5.9 |
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lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E