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CVE-2023-24998 (GCVE-0-2023-24998)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-20 15:57 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:47
VLAI
Title
Apache Commons FileUpload, Apache Tomcat: FileUpload DoS with excessive parts
Summary
Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.5 does not limit the number of request parts to be processed resulting in the possibility of an attacker triggering a DoS with a malicious upload or series of uploads. Note that, like all of the file upload limits, the new configuration option (FileUploadBase#setFileCountMax) is not enabled by default and must be explicitly configured.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons FileUpload Affected: 0 , < 1.5 (semver)
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Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat Affected: 11.0.0-M1
Affected: 10.0.0-M1 , ≤ 10.1.4 (semver)
Affected: 9.0.0-M1 , ≤ 9.0.70 (semver)
Affected: 8.5.0 , ≤ 8.5.84 (semver)
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Credits
Jakob Ackermann
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