GHSA-53hp-jpwq-2jgq

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Tomcat

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2020-11996
Aliases
BIT-tomcat-2020-11996
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests sent to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M5, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.35 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.55 could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections, the server could become unresponsive.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 10.0.0-M1, fixed 10.0.0-M5
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.35
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 8.5.0, fixed 8.5.55
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 10.0.0-M1, fixed 10.0.0-M5
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.35
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 8.5.0, fixed 8.5.55

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database