Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [9.0.0.M1,9.0.118)[10.1.0-M1,10.1.55)[11.0.0-M1,11.0.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.78% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-16643258
  • published13 May 2026
  • disclosed12 May 2026
  • creditDariusz Gońda

Introduced: 12 May 2026

CVE-2026-41284  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 9.0.118, 10.1.55, 11.0.22 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 via the WebDAV LOCK and PROPFIND XML request bodies. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by sending specially crafted requests that trigger unbounded reads.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1