CVE-2012-5568 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5568?

CVE-2012-5568 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 30 Nov 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Apache Tomcat through 7.0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via partial HTTP requests, as demonstrated by Slowloris.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5568?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apache Tomcat, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5568?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5568 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-5568 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5568 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-v35g-wxj7-gxp3.