Vulnerabilities disclosed in Apache Commons FileUpload 

Issue date: 14-06-2023
Affects versions: 15.2, 15.1, 14.7, 13.4

Security Issue ID

SECURITY-431

 

Affected Product Version(s)

15.2.1, 14.7.13, 13.4.22 and previous releases.

Severity 

High

Description

CVE-2023-24988 suppress

Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.5 does not limit the number of request parts to be processed resulting in the possibility of an attacker triggering a DoS with a malicious upload or series of uploads. Note that, like all of the file upload limits, the new configuration option (FileUploadBase#setFileCountMax) is not enabled by default and must be explicitly configured.

CVSSv3:

• Base Score: 7.5 HIGH

• Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Instructions

Customers are recommended to upgrade to the latest version. As of the time of writing, 15.2.3,14.7.14,13.4.23.