Resource exhaustion in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2024-54677

 

Resource exhaustion in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2024-54677

Published: December 17, 2024 / Updated: December 17, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU101813
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-54677
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the examples web application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Apache Tomcat
JBoss Web Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Web and Scripting Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Anolis OS
Ubuntu
EasyApache
NetWorker
Unified OSS Console Assurance Monitoring (UOCAM)
APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance
APROL
APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure
HPE Unified OSS Console (UOC)
tomcat
tomcat-webapps
tomcat-lib
tomcat-admin-webapps
tomcat-docs-webapp
tomcat-el-3_0-api
tomcat-jsp-2_3-api
tomcat-servlet-4_0-api
tomcat-javadoc
tomcat-help
tomcat-jsvc
tomcat-servlet-4.0-api
tomcat-jsp-2.3-api
tomcat-el-3.0-api
tomcat-doc
tomcat-embed
tomcat10 (Ubuntu package)
tomcat10 (Debian package)
tomcat10-jsvc
tomcat10-lib
tomcat10-embed
tomcat10-el-5_0-api
tomcat10-jsp-3_1-api
tomcat10-webapps
tomcat10-doc
tomcat10
tomcat10-docs-webapp
tomcat10-servlet-6_0-api
tomcat10-admin-webapps

How to mitigate CVE-2024-54677

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Tomcat - addressed in versions 9.0.98, 10.1.34, 11.0.2
EasyApache - update to 4 2024-12-18
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance - update to 8.321
NetWorker - update to 19.13.0.1
APROL - update to R 4.4-01P5
APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure - update to 01.04.01.00
Unified OSS Console Assurance Monitoring (UOCAM) - update to 3.1.13
HPE Unified OSS Console (UOC) - update to 3.1.13
APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift - update to 03.02.04.00
JBoss Web Server - update to 6.1.0
tomcat - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-webapps - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-lib - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-admin-webapps - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-docs-webapp - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-el-3_0-api - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-jsp-2_3-api - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-servlet-4_0-api - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-javadoc - addressed in versions 9.0.36-3.136.1, 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat - update to 9.0.96-4
tomcat-help - update to 9.0.96-4
tomcat-jsvc - update to 9.0.96-4
tomcat - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-webapps - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-servlet-4.0-api - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-lib - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-jsp-2.3-api - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-el-3.0-api - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-docs-webapp - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-doc - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-admin-webapps - update to 9.0.98-1
tomcat-embed - update to 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat-jsvc - update to 9.0.98-150200.74.1
tomcat10 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 10.1.16-1ubuntu0.1~esm3, 10.1.35-1ubuntu0.1
tomcat10 (Debian package) - update to 10.1.34-0+deb12u1
tomcat10-jsvc - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-lib - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-embed - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-el-5_0-api - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-jsp-3_1-api - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-webapps - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-doc - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10 - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-docs-webapp - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-servlet-6_0-api - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1
tomcat10-admin-webapps - update to 10.1.34-150200.5.31.1

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