CVE-2017-6056

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. The denial of service is easily achievable as a consequence of backporting a CVE-2016-6816 fix but not backporting the fix for Tomcat bug 57544. Distributions affected by this backporting issue include Debian (before 7.0.56-3+deb8u8 and 8.0.14-1+deb8u7 in jessie) and Ubuntu.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-6056
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-02-17T07:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-03T00:03:26
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-835 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00039.html Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60578 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/851304 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96293 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037860 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3788 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3787 Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0517.html Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/ Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ac51944aef91dd5006b8510b0bef337adaccfe962fb90e7af9c22db4@%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d@%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6056
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6056
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:27:30 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 14:02:06 2017-02-17T07:59Z 2017-02-17T07:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 14:02:06 2019-10-03T00:03:26 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 14:02:06 Modified Vulnerability Status updated