Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tomcat (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-TOMCAT-9749644
- published18 Apr 2025
- disclosed23 Sept 2024
Introduced: 23 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-38286 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat package and not the tomcat package as distributed by RHEL.
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.