CVE-2024-23672

Description

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98. Older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue.

How to fix CVE-2024-23672

To remediate CVE-2024-23672, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 8.5.99 or later
• —upgrade to 10.1.6-1+deb12u2 or later
• —upgrade to 9.0.43-2~deb11u10 or later
• —upgrade to 9.0.31-1~deb10u12 or later
• —upgrade to 11.0.0-M17 or later
• —upgrade to 11.0.0-M17 or later

Is CVE-2024-23672 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (6)

• >= 8.5.0, < 8.5.99, >= 9.0.0, < 9.0.86, >= 10.0.0, < 10.1.19
• from 0, < 10.1.6-1+deb12u2
• from 0, < 9.0.43-2~deb11u10
• from 0, < 9.0.31-1~deb10u12
• >= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.0-M17
• >= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.0-M17

CVSS scores

References (16)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23672
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-23672
• PATCHgithub.com/apache/tomcat
• WEBgithub.com/apache/tomcat/commit/0052b374684b613b0c849899b325ebe334ac6501