Tomcat CVE-2024-23672 - Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

Products

• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue.

Environment

Spectrum 23.3.8 and earlier

Resolution

This vulnerability is addressed in Spectrum 23.3.9 where Tomcat is updated to 9.0.87.

Additional Information

CVE-2024-23672
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23672