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CVE-2018-8037 — If an async request was completed by the application at the same time as the con

If an async request was completed by the application at the same time as the container triggered the async timeout, a race condition existed that could result in a user seeing a response intended for a different user. An additional issue was present in the NIO and NIO2 connectors

CVSS
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EPSS
6.63% (top 8.90%)
CWE
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Published
2018-08-02T14:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-16T17:07:40.261Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

If an async request was completed by the application at the same time as the container triggered the async timeout, a race condition existed that could result in a user seeing a response intended for a different user. An additional issue was present in the NIO and NIO2 connectors that did not correctly track the closure of the connection when an async request was completed by the application and…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Apache Software FoundationApache Tomcat9.0.0.M9 to 9.0.9, 8.5.5 to 8.5.31

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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