Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting tomcat10 package, versions <10.1.34-0+deb12u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.7% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-TOMCAT10-18001257
  • published17 Jul 2026
  • disclosed7 Nov 2024

Introduced: 7 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-38286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest tomcat10 to version 10.1.34-0+deb12u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat10 package and not the tomcat10 package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M20, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.24, from 9.0.13 through 9.0.89.

The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.35 through 8.5.100 and 7.0.92 through 7.0.109. Other EOL versions may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M21, 10.1.25, or 9.0.90, which fixes the issue.

Apache Tomcat, under certain configurations on any platform, allows an attacker to cause an OutOfMemoryError by abusing the TLS handshake process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1