GHSA-43v2-6grp-9pp9

Apache Tomcat does not enforce the maxHttpHeaderSize limit

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2011-0534
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.30 does not enforce the maxHttpHeaderSize limit for requests involving the NIO HTTP connector, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OutOfMemoryError) via a crafted request.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 6.0.0, fixed 6.0.32
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.8

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database