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CVE-2016-3092

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 37.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-07-04 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The MultipartStream class in Apache Commons Fileupload before 1.3.2, as used in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.70, 8.x before 8.0.36, 8.5.x before 8.5.3, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M7 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long boundary string.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons FileUpload: through 1.3.1
• Apache Tomcat: 9.0.0-milestone1, 9.0.0-milestone3, 9.0.0-milestone4, 9.0.0-milestone6, 8.0.0-rc1, 8.0.0-rc10 (+80)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• HP Icewall Identity Manager: 5.0
• HP Icewall Sso Agent Option: 10.0

References

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN89379547/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000121
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00025.html
• http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201606.mbox/%3CCAF8HOZ%2BPq2QH8RnxBuJyoK1dOz6jrTiQypAC%2BH8g6oZkBg%2BCxg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2068.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2069.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2070.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2071.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2072.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2599.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2807.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2808.html

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