CVE-2021-41079

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41079
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-16 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
DescriptionApache 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Netapp Management Services For Element Software And Netapp Hci - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[tomcat-users] 20211014 [SECURITY] CVE-2021-42340 Apache Tomcat DoS lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MISC lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2764-1] tomcat8 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[tomcat-dev] 20211014 [SECURITY] CVE-2021-42340 Apache Tomcat DoS lists.apache.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4986-1 tomcat9 DEBIAN www.debian.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
CVE-2021-41079 Apache Tomcat Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: 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.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 150385 Apache Tomcat Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41079)
  • 178801 Debian Security Update for tomcat8 (DLA 2764-1)
  • 182401 Debian Security Update for tomcat9 (CVE-2021-41079)
  • 198724 Ubuntu Security Notification for Tomcat Vulnerabilities (USN-5360-1)
  • 239732 Red Hat Update for red hat jboss web server 5.5.1 (RHSA-2021:3741)
  • 352859 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for tomcat8: ALAS-2021-1547
  • 671154 EulerOS Security Update for tomcat (EulerOS-SA-2021-2816)
  • 730505 Apache Tomcat Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41079)
  • 751320 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tomcat (SUSE-SU-2021:3602-1)
  • 751355 OpenSUSE Security Update for tomcat (openSUSE-SU-2021:3672-1)
  • 751364 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tomcat (SUSE-SU-2021:3669-1)
  • 751365 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tomcat (SUSE-SU-2021:3670-1)
  • 751370 OpenSUSE Security Update for tomcat (openSUSE-SU-2021:1490-1)
  • 980413 Java (maven) Security Update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-59g9-7gfx-c72p)
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