CVE-2024-56337
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
20/12/2024
Last modified:
15/07/2025
Description
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.<br />
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This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.1, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.33, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.97.<br />
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The mitigation for CVE-2024-50379 was incomplete.<br />
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Users running Tomcat on a case insensitive file system with the default servlet write enabled (readonly initialisation <br />
parameter set to the non-default value of false) may need additional configuration to fully mitigate CVE-2024-50379 depending on which version of Java they are using with Tomcat:<br />
- running on Java 8 or Java 11: the system property sun.io.useCanonCaches must be explicitly set to false (it defaults to true)<br />
- running on Java 17: the system property sun.io.useCanonCaches, if set, must be set to false (it defaults to false)<br />
- running on Java 21 onwards: no further configuration is required (the system property and the problematic cache have been removed)<br />
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Tomcat 11.0.3, 10.1.35 and 9.0.99 onwards will include checks that sun.io.useCanonCaches is set appropriately before allowing the default servlet to be write enabled on a case insensitive file system. Tomcat will also set sun.io.useCanonCaches to false by default where it can.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Vulnerable products and versions
CPE | From | Up to |
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 9.0.0 (including) | 9.0.98 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 10.1.0 (including) | 10.1.34 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 11.0.0 (including) | 11.0.2 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:bootstrap_os:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:h:netapp:hci_compute_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page