Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat
servlet and JSP engine.
CVE-2023-24998
Denial of service. Tomcat uses a packaged renamed copy of Apache Commons
FileUpload to provide the file upload functionality defined in the Jakarta
Servlet specification. Apache Tomcat was, therefore, also vulnerable to the
Commons FileUpload vulnerability CVE-2023-24998 as there was no limit to
the number of request parts processed. This resulted in the possibility of
an attacker triggering a DoS with a malicious upload or series of uploads.
CVE-2023-41080
Open redirect. If the ROOT (default) web application is configured to use
FORM authentication then it is possible that a specially crafted URL could
be used to trigger a redirect to an URL of the attackers choice.
CVE-2023-42795
Information Disclosure. When recycling various internal objects, including
the request and the response, prior to re-use by the next request/response,
an error could c...
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