CVE-2021-43980
What it is
The 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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 2.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 3.7 LOW (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 2.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-362 · Race condition
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Apache Tomcat ≤ 8.5.77
- Apache Tomcat ≤ 9.0.60
- Apache Tomcat ≤ 10.0.18
- Apache Tomcat 10.1.0
- Debian Linux 10.0
- Debian Linux 11.0
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 3.7
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Is it in your code?
Hand this to your coding agent. It searches your project for the affected products and checks versions. Nothing leaves your machine.
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Fix and advisories
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/3jjqbsp6j88b198x5rmg99b1qr8ht3g3
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/3jjqbsp6j88b198x5rmg99b1qr8ht3g3
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/28/1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/3jjqbsp6j88b198x5rmg99b1qr8ht3g3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00029.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5265
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/28/1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/3jjqbsp6j88b198x5rmg99b1qr8ht3g3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00029.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5265