Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-41890 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Apache Answer

CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

LOW

Availability impact

NONE

network

low complexity

apache

CWE-772

NVD

Published: 2024-08-12

Updated: 2024-08-29

Summary

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. User sends multiple password reset emails, each containing a valid link. Within the link's validity period, this could potentially lead to the link being misused or hijacked. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.3.6, which fixes the issue.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Apache Apache Answer - Apache Answer 0.2.0 Apache Answer 0.3.0 Apache Answer 0.4.0 Apache Answer 0.4.1 Apache Answer 0.4.2 Apache Answer 0.5.0 Apache Answer 1.0.0 Apache Answer 1.0.1 Apache Answer 1.0.2 Apache Answer 1.0.3 Apache Answer 1.0.4 Apache Answer 1.0.5 Apache Answer 1.0.6 Apache Answer 1.0.7 Apache Answer 1.0.8 Apache Answer 1.0.9 Apache Answer 1.1.0 Apache Answer 1.1.1 Apache Answer 1.1.2 Apache Answer 1.1.3 Apache Answer 1.2.0 Apache Answer 1.2.1	27

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

HTTP DoS
An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/j7c080xj31x8rvz1pyk2h47rdd9pwbv9