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CVE-2019-0199

Apache Tomcat Denial of Service vulnerability

Impact

The HTTP/2 implementation in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.14 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.37 accepted streams with excessive numbers of SETTINGS frames and also permitted clients to keep streams open without reading/writing request/response data. By keeping streams open for requests that utilised the Servlet API's blocking I/O, clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading to thread exhaustion and a DoS.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.169.0.16
mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.169.0.16

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ApacheTomcat
from 8.5.0 through 8.5.37
from 9.0.1 through 9.0.14
Version 9.0.0

Weakness classification

References