Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
apache/commons-fileupload
master @ ac6e6de
2
Fixes
1
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
Highlights
Insecure Temporary File: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
DeferrableOutputStream: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Insecure Temporary File: Temporary files written to disk during the deferred buffering of uploaded data could be readable by other local users on shared systems if owner-only POSIX permissions (rw-------) are not explicitly enforced.
Insecure Temporary File: The core fileupload component previously failed to adequately restrict file permissions on temporary storage directories, exposing uploaded files to unauthorized local access.
Denial of Service: Attackers can cause a remote denial of service via resource exhaustion by sending crafted multipart requests with oversized headers that exceed internal limits.