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OESA-2023-1155 (CVE-2023-24998)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-03-10 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

apache-commons-fileupload security update

Details

The javax.servlet package lacks support for RFC-1867, HTML file upload. This package provides a simple to use API for working with such data. The scope of this package is to create a package of Java utility classes to read multipart/form-data within a javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2023-24998)

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24998	ADVISORY

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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

Title

Apache Commons FileUpload, Apache Tomcat: FileUpload DoS with excessive parts

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread/4xl4l09mhwg4vgsk7…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/22/1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-37
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5522
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023030…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024110…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Commons FileUpload	Affected: 0 , < 1.5 (semver)
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)

Credits

Jakob Ackermann

Show details on NVD website

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