Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [ ,9.0.106)[10.1.0-M1,10.1.42)[11.0.0-M1,11.0.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-10365123
  • published17 Jun 2025
  • disclosed16 Jun 2025
  • creditTERASOLUNA

Introduced: 16 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2025-48988  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 9.0.106, 10.1.42, 11.0.8 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina is a Tomcat Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the uniform handling of request parameters and parts in multipart requests. An attacker can craft a malicious request with a large number of parts, which can lead to a Denial of Service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1