CVE-2012-4534: Apache Tomcat

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

org/apache/tomcat/util/net/NioEndpoint.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.28, when the NIO connector is used in conjunction with sendfile and HTTPS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by terminating the connection during the reading of a response.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.3 only; version 6.0.4 only; …

Published 2012-12-19. Last modified 2026-10-09.