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From: Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com>
Sent: 21 June 2016 10:18:15 BST
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Subject: CVE-2016-3092: Apache Commons Fileupload information disclosure
vulnerability
CVE-2016-3092: Apache Commons Fileupload information disclosure vulnerability
Severity: Moderate
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
Apache Commons Fileupload 1.3 to 1.3.1
Apache Commons Fileupload 1.2 to 1.2.2
The unsupported Apache Commons Fileupload 1.0.x, and 1.1.x may also be affected.
Apache Tomcat 9.x to 9.0.0M6
Apache Tomcat 8.x to 8.0.35
Apache Tomcat 7.x to 7.0.69
Apache Tomcat 6.x
Unsupported versions of Apache Tomcat, like 5.x may also be affected.
Apache Struts 2.5.x, and previous versions, which are distributing
Commons FileUpload 1.3.1, or earlier versions.
Description:
A malicious client can send file upload requests that cause the HTTP server
using the Apache Commons Fileupload library to become unresponsive, preventing
the server from servicing other requests.
This flaw is not exploitable beyond causing the code to loop expending
CPU resources.
Mitigation:
All users of Apache Commons Fileupload should upgrade to 1.3.2.
All users of Apache Tomcat should upgrade to 9.0.0M8, 8.0.36, or
7.0.70, respectively.
All users of Apache Struts should replace the copy of Commons
FileUpload (which is distributed as part of Struts) with the fixed
version 1.3.2.
Workaround:
System administrators should restrict the permitted maximum size of HTTP request
header values (For example, Apache Httpd provides a
LimitRequestFieldSize directive,
and Apache Tomcat provides a maxHttpHeaderSize attribute in their respective
configuration files). A maximum header value size of 2048 bytes would block all
dangerous request.
Example:
File upload requests contain a so-called boundary in the Content-Type header:
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=gc0p4Jq0M2Yt08jU534c0p
The boundary may be chosen by the request sender. In the case of
previous versions
of Apache Commons Fileupload the boundary becomes dangerous, if its
size is close
to 4096 bytes.
Credit:
TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team at the Software Engineering,
Research and Development Headquarter, for detecting this flaw, and reporting
it to the JPCERT/CC,
Taki Uchiyama (JPCERT/CC Vulnerability Handling Team) reported this
problem to us.
References:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-fileupload/security.html
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Note: Apache Tomcat 6.x and earlier are NOT affected.
