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CVE-2016-3092

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.

Published:Jun 21, 2016

Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025

EPS:Jul 4, 2016

EPSS Score:0.40246

CVSS Score:7.5

Affected Products

Vendor

Product

Action

Vendor

Apache

Product

Commons Fileupload

Apache

Commons Fileupload

Vendor

Apache

Product

Tomcat

Apache

Tomcat

Vendor

Canonical

Product

Ubuntu Linux

Canonical

Ubuntu Linux

Vendor

Debian

Product

Debian Linux

Debian

Debian Linux

Vendor

Hp

Product

Icewall Identity Manager

Hp

Icewall Identity Manager

Vendor

Hp

Product

Icewall Sso Agent Option

Hp

Icewall Sso Agent Option

Vendor

Redhat

Product

Enterprise Linux

Redhat

Enterprise Linux

Vendor

Redhat

Product

Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

Redhat

Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

Vendor

Redhat

Product

Jboss Enterprise Web Server

Redhat

Jboss Enterprise Web Server

Exploits

https://github.com/dawetmaster/CVE-2016-3092-commons-fileupload-vulnerable

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables

CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection

CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting

CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection

CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection

CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering

CAPEC-120 Double Encoding

CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values

CAPEC-135 Format String Injection

CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection

CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation

CAPEC-182 Flash Injection

CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch

CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client

CAPEC-23 File Content Injection

CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads

CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads

CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-250 XML Injection

CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data

CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-28 Fuzzing

CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters

CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies

CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion

CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers

CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links

CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags

CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion

CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof

CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes

CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash

CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS

CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery

CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()

CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection

CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-72 URL Encoding

CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename

CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call

CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering

CAPEC-83 XPath Injection

CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting

CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection

CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

Related CVEs

CVE-2025-48976 (CVSS 7.5) — Allocation of resources for multipart headers with insufficient limits enabled a DoS vulnerability in Apache C…

CVE-2023-24998 (CVSS 7.5) — Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.5 does not limit the number of request parts to be processed resulting in t…

CVE-2016-1000031 (CVSS 9.8) — Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.3.3 DiskFileItem File Manipulation Remote Code Execution…

CVE-2014-0050 (CVSS 7.5) — MultipartStream.java in Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.3.1, as used in Apache Tomcat, JBoss Web, and other…

CVE-2013-0248 (CVSS 3.3) — The default configuration of javax.servlet.context.tempdir in Apache Commons FileUpload 1.0 through 1.2.2 uses…

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743480

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743722

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743738

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743742

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3609

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3611

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3614

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91453

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036427

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036900

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037029

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039606

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3024-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3027-1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349468

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05204371

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05289840

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324759

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-09

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-39

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190212-0001/

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743480

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743722

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743738

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1743742

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3609

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3611

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3614

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91453

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036427

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036900

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037029

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039606

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3024-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3027-1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349468

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05204371

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05289840

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324759

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-09

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-39

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190212-0001/

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Attack Vector

Network

Adjacent

Local

Physical

Privileges Required

None

Low

High

User Interaction

None

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Low

High

Integrity

None

Low

High

Availability

None

Low

High