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🛡️ CVE-2024-21733 — tomcat

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-209 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Tomcat: Leaking of unrelated request bodies in default error page

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 8.5.7 through 8.5.63, from 9.0.0 through 9.0.43. Other, EOL versions may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 8.5.64 onwards or 9.0.44 onwards, which contain a fix for the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-21733 is classified as CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message. Error output includes internal detail such as paths, queries or stack traces that assists an attacker.

Affected software

CVE-2024-21733 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (from 9.0.0-M11 up to 9.0.44)
  • org.apache.tomcat.experimental:tomcat-embed-programmatic (from 9.0.43 up to 9.0.44)
  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote (from 8.5.7 up to 8.5.64)
  • tomcat

Timeline and source

Published on 19 January 2024 and last revised on 18 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
packetstormsecurity.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message) in other software:

CVE-2024-21733 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-209
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-01-19
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote 8.5.7 8.5.64
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core 9.0.0-M11 9.0.44
org.apache.tomcat.experimental:tomcat-embed-programmatic 9.0.43 9.0.44
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