CVE-2021-43980

Summary

CVECVE-2021-43980
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-28 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-10 04:00:00 UTC
DescriptionThe simplified implementation of blocking reads and writes introduced in Tomcat 10 and back-ported to Tomcat 9.0.47 onwards exposed a long standing (but extremely hard to trigger) concurrency bug in Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 to 10.1.0-M12, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.18, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.60 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.77 that could cause client connections to share an Http11Processor instance resulting in responses, or part responses, to be received by the wrong client.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone1 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone10 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone2 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone3 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone4 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone5 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone6 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone7 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone8 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.0.0 milestone9 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone1 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone10 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone11 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone12 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone2 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone3 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone4 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone5 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone6 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone7 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone8 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 milestone9 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone1 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone2 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone3 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone4 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone5 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone6 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone7 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone8 All All
Application Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 milestone9 All All
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE-2021-43980: Apache Tomcat: Information disclosure MLIST www.openwall.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5265-1 tomcat9 DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3160-1] tomcat9 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
lists.apache.org/thread/3jjqbsp6j88b198x5rmg99b1qr8ht3g3 MISC lists.apache.org
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: Thanks to Adam Thomas, Richard Hernandez and Ryan Schmitt for discovering the issue and working with the Tomcat security team to identify the root cause and appropriate fix.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 150579 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2021-43980)
  • 181163 Debian Security Update for tomcat9 (DLA 3160-1)
  • 181177 Debian Security Update for tomcat9 (DSA 5265-1)
  • 183888 Debian Security Update for tomcat9 (CVE-2021-43980)
  • 354897 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for tomcat8 : ALAS-2023-1732
  • 355155 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for tomcat9 : ALAS2023-2023-176
  • 356166 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for tomcat : ALASTOMCAT9-2023-005
  • 356243 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for tomcat : ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-013
  • 730647 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2021-43980)
  • 730650 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2021-43980)
  • 730659 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2021-43980)
  • 730665 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2021-43980)
  • 752808 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tomcat (SUSE-SU-2022:4009-1)
  • 752834 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tomcat (SUSE-SU-2022:4221-1)
  • 752849 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tomcat (SUSE-SU-2022:4257-1)
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