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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 16, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.2
>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.43
>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.63

Patched versions

10.0.2
9.0.43
8.5.63

Description

When responding to new h2c connection requests, Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.41 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.61 could duplicate request headers and a limited amount of request body from one request to another meaning user A and user B could both see the results of user A's request.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 1, 2021
Reviewed Mar 24, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 16, 2021
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-25122

GHSA ID

GHSA-j39c-c8hj-x4j3

Source code

No known source code
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