CVE-2021-43980 (GCVE-0-2021-43980)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-28 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-21 15:00
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Title
Apache Tomcat: Information disclosure
Summary
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.
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CWE
  • CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat Affected: 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M12
Affected: 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.18
Affected: 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.60
Affected: 8.5.0 to 8.5.77
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Credits
Thanks to Adam Thomas, Richard Hernandez and Ryan Schmitt for discovering the issue and working with the Tomcat security team to identify the root cause and appropriate fix.
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