CVE-2023-24998

Description

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.

How to fix CVE-2023-24998

To remediate CVE-2023-24998, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 1.4-1+deb11u1 or later
—upgrade to 1.4-1+deb11u1 or later
—upgrade to 10.1.5-1 or later
—upgrade to 9.0.43-2~deb11u7 or later
—upgrade to 9.0.31-1~deb10u9 or later
—upgrade to 9.0.43-2~deb11u7 or later
—upgrade to 1.5 or later
—upgrade to 10.1.5 or later
—upgrade to 10.1.5 or later

Is CVE-2023-24998 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 33.9%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

Affected packages (9)

from 0, < 1.4-1+deb11u1
from 0, < 1.4-1+deb11u1
from 0, < 10.1.5-1
from 0, < 9.0.43-2~deb11u7
from 0, < 9.0.31-1~deb10u9
from 0, < 9.0.43-2~deb11u7
from 0, < 1.5
>= 10.1.0-M1, < 10.1.5
>= 10.1.0-M1, < 10.1.5

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H