CVE-2023-28709

A flaw was found in Apache Tomcat due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-24998, which aims to limit the uploaded request parts that can be bypassed in a request. This issue may allow an attacker to use a malicious upload or series of uploads to trigger a denial of service.

The fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete for Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M2 to 11.0.0-M4, 10.1.5 to 10.1.7, 9.0.71 to 9.0.73 and 8.5.85 to 8.5.87. If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be bypassed with the potential for a denial of service to occur.

Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector, the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library. This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.3. This release includes bug fixes, enhancements and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References section. Issues addressed include denial of service, information leakage, integer overflow, and out of bounds write vulnerabilities.