CVE-2021-43980

CVE-2021-43980: Apache Tomcat: Information disclosure

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Tomcat
Weakness CWE-362
Published September 28, 2022
Last update May 21, 2025

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What the vulnerability does

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.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

September 28, 2022 CVE published
May 21, 2025 Record updated