CVE-2005-3510

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of simultaneous requests to list a web directory that has a large number of files.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5 (+6)

References

http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx
http://secunia.com/advisories/17416
http://secunia.com/advisories/30899
http://secunia.com/advisories/30908
http://secunia.com/advisories/33668
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015147
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1
http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
http://www.osvdb.org/20439
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0161.html

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