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Apache Commons FileUpload and Apache Tomcat DoS

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Disclosed
Feb 6, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module triggers an infinite loop in Apache Commons FileUpload 1.0
through 1.3 via a specially crafted Content-Type header.
Apache Tomcat 7 and Apache Tomcat 8 use a copy of FileUpload to handle
mime-multipart requests, therefore, Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 through 7.0.50
and 8.0.0-RC1 through 8.0.1 are affected by this issue. Tomcat 6 also
uses Commons FileUpload as part of the Manager application.

Authors

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Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/apache_commons_fileupload_dos
    msf auxiliary(apache_commons_fileupload_dos) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(apache_commons_fileupload_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(apache_commons_fileupload_dos) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(apache_commons_fileupload_dos) > run
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