Advisory record · GHSA-jm7m-8jh6-29hp

Apache Tomcat Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability

CVSS 5.9 MediumEPSS 0.023 · 83rd percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 10 Oct 2023, 18:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyoteMaven>=9.0.70, <9.0.81 || >=8.5.85, <8.5.949.0.81, 8.5.94
Identifiers
GHSA-jm7m-8jh6-29hp · BIT-tomcat-2023-42794 · CVE-2023-42794
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-459
Published
10 Oct 2023
Updated
13 Feb 2025

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Apache Tomcat (tomcat-coyote) versions 9.0.70 through 9.0.80 and 8.5.85 through 8.5.93 are affected. On Windows, if a web application opened an uploaded file's stream and did not close it, the file could remain on disk, which could eventually fill the disk and cause a denial of service. Upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.81 or 8.5.94 or later, which fixes the issue.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.9 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.023, the 83rd percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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