{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload. It affects 6 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3092 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload to 1.3.2 or later.","what":"CVE-2016-3092 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 4 Jul 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-3092 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-3092 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 4 Jul 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3092 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload (Maven): affected all versions; fixed in 1.3.2\n- commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload (Maven): affected all versions; fixed in 1.3.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3092/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3092/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-3092","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3092/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-3092","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3092","DLA-528-1","DLA-529-1","DSA-3611-1","DSA-3614-1","GHSA-fvm3-cfvj-gxqq","MGASA-2016-0260","RHSA-2016:2068","RHSA-2016:2069","RHSA-2016:2070","RHSA-2016:2072","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3092","USN-3027-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Java file upload library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via CPU consumption using a long boundary string in Apache Commons 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