CVE-2021-43980

Apache Tomcat: Information disclosure

Published Sep 28, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 3.7 Low EPSS 2.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
The simplified implementation of blocking reads and writes introduced in Tomcat 10 and back-ported to Tomcat 9.0.47 onwards exposed a long standing (but extremely hard to trigger) concurrency bug in Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 to 10.1.0-M12, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.18, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.60 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.77 that could cause client connections to share an Http11Processor instance resulting in responses, or part responses, to be received by the wrong client.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3160-1 tomcat9 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5265-1 tomcat9 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-6865 The simplified implementation of blocking reads and writes introduced in Tomcat 10 and back-ported to Tomcat 9.0.47 onwards exposed a long standing (but extremely hard to trigger) concurrency bug in Apache Tomcat 10.1.0 to 10.1.0-M12, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.18, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.60 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.77 that could cause client connections to share an Http11Processor instance resulting in responses, or part responses, to be received by the wrong client.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jx7c-7mj5-9438 Apache Tomcat Race Condition vulnerability
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
apache
Published
Updated
May 21, 2025, 3:00 PM
Reserved
Nov 17, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 28, 2022, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:11 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Sep 28, 2022, 12:00 AM