CVE-2021-43980

Public on 2022-09-28
Modified on 2024-05-01
Description
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.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
3.7
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core tomcat Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat8.5 Extra tomcat 2023-08-21 ALAS2TOMCAT8.5-2023-013 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat9 Extra tomcat 2023-08-21 ALAS2TOMCAT9-2023-005 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat8 2023-04-13 ALAS-2023-1732 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 tomcat9 2023-04-27 ALAS2023-2023-176 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N