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CVE-2014-0230

tomcat: non-persistent DoS attack by feeding data by aborting an upload

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 19, 2014

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing requests with a large enough request body. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust the pool of available connections and preventing further, legitimate connections to the Tomcat server to be made.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling