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Security researchers published a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently disclosed vulnerability that allows attackers to launch denial-of-service attacks against websites hosted on Apache Tomcat servers.

Apache Tomcat is a widely used Web server for hosting applications developed with the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.

The new denial-of-service vulnerability is located in Apache Commons FileUpload, a stand-alone library that developers can use to add file upload capability to their Java Web-based applications. This library is also included by default in Apache Tomcat versions 7 and 8 in order to support the processing of mime-multipart requests.

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