THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-0230
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-0230

Tomcat vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
20.3%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.44, 7.x before 7.0.55, and 8.x before 8.0.9 does not properly handle cases where an HTTP response occurs before finishing the reading of an entire request body, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread consumption) via a series of aborted upload attempts.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Tomcat
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2015-06-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 20.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-0230

  • Confirm whether Apache Tomcat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-0230.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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