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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-03-24 10:21

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Apache Tomcat: Fix for CVE-2023-24998 is incomplete

Details

The fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete for Apache Tomcat 10.1.5 to 10.1.7, 9.0.71 to 9.0.73 and 8.5.85 to 8.5.87. If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be bypassed with the potential for a denial of service to occur.

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CVE-2023-28709 (GCVE-0-2023-28709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-22 10:08 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:48

Title

Apache Tomcat: Fix for CVE-2023-24998 is incomplete

Summary

The fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete for Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M2 to 11.0.0-M4, 10.1.5 to 10.1.7, 9.0.71 to 9.0.73 and 8.5.85 to 8.5.87. If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be bypassed with the potential for a denial of service to occur.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-02-20 15:15 UTC

CWE

CWE-193 - Off-by-one Error

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread/7wvxonzwb7k9hx9jt…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/22/1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-37
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023061…
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5521

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Tomcat	Affected: 11.0.0-M2 , ≤ 11.0.0-M4 (semver) Affected: 10.1.5 , ≤ 10.1.7 (semver) Affected: 9.0.71 , ≤ 9.0.73 (semver) Affected: 8.5.85 , ≤ 8.5.87 (semver)

Credits

Chenwei Jiang, Chenfeng Nie and Yue Yang from the Huawei Nebula Security Lab

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