MultipartStream.java in Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.3.1, as used in Apache Tomcat, JBoss Web, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted Content-Type header that bypasses a loop's intended exit conditions.
CVE-2014-0050
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than the CVSS score beside it.
Score elevated to 9.0 because EPSS predicted 83% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs) when EchelonGraph scored this CVE. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.5 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). Confidence: see factors.
Also known asEUVD-2018-0825 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xx68-jfcg-xmmf (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- 11 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running an affected version — derived from Shodan data (© Shodan); a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 83%
- Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB)
A fix is available — apply it.
11 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running a version that maps to CVE-2014-0050, in our KEV-Exposure radar’s Shodan-derived sample.
How it counts: every 12 hours, when Shodan query credits allow, the radar runs one Shodan query per tracked product, reads up to 100 ip:port services per query, and keeps a service when its banner version matches a CISA-KEV or high-EPSS CVE; a service is dropped when neither a search nor a Shodan InternetDB port re-check has refreshed it for 21 days. A re-check that finds the port still listed by Shodan InternetDB refreshes the service without re-reading the banner, so a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open. A count is a banner-version inference over a sample, not an exploit test and not an internet-wide census, and the unit is a service, not a machine: a machine answering on two ports counts twice.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 82EG Risk 82/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation83% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 83%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is EPSS's lift toward 9.0 from its impact severity (EG Severity, CVSS 7.5 HIGH): a likelihood of exploitation, not impact.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 · CVSS v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 83% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-02). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
April 1, 2014
Last Modified
October 7, 2026
Advisory Details (8)
Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026[SECURITY] [DSA 2856-1] libcommons-fileupload-java security update
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-28561062337 – (CVE-2014-0050) CVE-2014-0050 apache-commons-fileupload: denial of service due to too-small buffer size used by MultipartStream
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062337'[security bulletin] HPSBGN03329 rev.1 - HP SDN VAN Controller, Remote Denial of Service (DoS), Distr' - MARC
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143136844732487&w=2JVN#14876762: Apache Commons FileUpload vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS)
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN14876762/index.htmlSupport Content Notification - Support Portal - Broadcom support portal
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.htmlVendor Advisories for CVE-2014-0050(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(15)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libtomcat7-java (7.0.42-1ubuntu0.1) @ saucy | 2026-11-01 | ubuntu |
| redhat | jbossweb | 2015-05-14 | redhat |
| redhat | tomcat7-0:7.0.40-9_patch_02.ep6.el6 | 2014-05-21 | redhat |
| redhat | tomcat6 | 2014-05-21 | redhat |
| redhat | tomcat6-0:6.0.37-27_patch_04.ep6.el6 | 2014-05-21 | redhat |
| redhat | tomcat7 | 2014-05-21 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2014-05-06 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2014-04-30 | redhat |
| redhat | tomcat6-0:6.0.24-64.el6_5 | 2014-04-23 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2014-04-14 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2014-04-14 | redhat |
| redhat | jbossweb-0:7.3.0-2.Final_redhat_2.1.ep6.el6 | 2014-03-05 | redhat |
| maven | commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload @ 1.3.1 (fixes < 1.3.1) | — | ghsa |
| maven | org.apache.tomcat:tomcat @ 8.0.3 (fixes >= 8.0.0-RC1, <= 8.0.1) | — | ghsa |
| maven | org.apache.tomcat:tomcat @ 7.0.52 (fixes >= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.50) | — | ghsa |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(9 across 7 ecosystems)
Debian:7(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libcommons-fileupload-java | 1.2.2-1, 1.2.2-1+deb7u1 |
| — |
| tomcat7 | 7.0.28-4 |
| — |
Maven(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload | 1.0 ... 1.3 (9 versions) |
| — |
| org.apache.tomcat:tomcat | 7.0.35 ... 7.0.50 (8 versions) |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libcommons-fileupload-java | — |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libcommons-fileupload-java | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libcommons-fileupload-java | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libcommons-fileupload-java | — |
| — |
Debian:6.0(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libcommons-fileupload-java | 1.2.2-1 |
| — |
Weakness Classification(3)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(13)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0252MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0252 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0253MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0253 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0373MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0373 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0401MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0401 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0429MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0429 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0452MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0452 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0459MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0459 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0473MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0473 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0525MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0525 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0526MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0526 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0527MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0527 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0528MODERATE2014-02-06
RHSA-2014:0528 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-2130-1MEDIUM
Tomcat vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 65× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 99 of 146 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 47 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 20:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 20:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-02 20:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xx68-jfcg-xmmf · GitHub severity HIGH
- 2026-11-02 02:25 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-11-01 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 19:15 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-01 19:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xx68-jfcg-xmmf · GitHub severity HIGH
- 2026-11-01 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-11-01 08:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xx68-jfcg-xmmf · GitHub severity HIGH
- 2026-10-31 18:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 17:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 17:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-29 17:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 17:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-28 16:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 16:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-27 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 15:36 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-26 14:45 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 20:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-25 13:14 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-25 13:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-24 12:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 12:31 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-23 11:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 11:47 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-22 11:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 11:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-21 10:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 10:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 09:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 09:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-19 08:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 08:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 08:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 08:10 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 07:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 07:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-16 06:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 06:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 05:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 05:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 01:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 01:00 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 21:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 21:06 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 01:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 13:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-08 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-07 23:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-07 18:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-07 18:02 UTCEG score recompute▲ 1.50
- 2026-10-07 18:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-07 18:01 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-10-05 17:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-30 00:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-29 22:32 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-26 15:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-21 20:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-18 19:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-17 19:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-15 03:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-10 18:53 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-04 13:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-30 19:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-27 14:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-26 14:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-25 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-23 12:22 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-21 23:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-19 16:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-18 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-16 14:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-16 02:09 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-15 01:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-08 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-07 16:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-07 14:27 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-06 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-26 13:49 UTCEG score recomputeAssessed again: 7.5 HIGH
- 2026-07-23 14:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-23 01:11 UTCEG score recompute▼ 8.70
- 2026-07-23 00:15 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 8.7 HIGH
- 2026-07-22 21:53 UTCEG score recompute▼ 9.00
- 2026-07-22 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-22 06:48 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-07-20 17:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-19 02:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-15 16:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
Publicly available exploits
(2 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- Metasploitauxiliary/dos/http/apache_commons_fileupload_dos✓ verifiedPublished Feb 26, 2014
Apache Commons FileUpload and Apache Tomcat DoS
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-31615✓ verifiedPublished Feb 12, 2014
Apache Commons FileUpload and Apache Tomcat - Denial of Service
Open source ↗
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