CVE-2021-30639

DoS after non-blocking IO error

published July 12, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
7%
Percentile
94.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to remotely trigger a denial of service. An error introduced as part of a change to improve error handling during non-blocking I/O meant that the error flag associated with the Request object was not reset between requests. This meant that once a non-blocking I/O error occurred, all future requests handled by that request object would fail. Users were able to trigger non-blocking I/O errors, e.g. by dropping a connection, thereby creating the possibility of triggering a DoS. Applications that do not use non-blocking I/O are not exposed to this vulnerability. This issue affects Apache Tomcat 10.0.3 to 10.0.4; 9.0.44; 8.5.64.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.06889 · 94.1th percentile
Published
2021-07-12T14:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUL 14:55Z
    DoS after non-blocking IO error
    cvelistv5