CVE-2020-11996 Affecting tomcat-lib package, versions <9.0.36-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-TOMCATLIB-2706714
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed21 Jul 2020

Introduced: 21 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-11996  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 tomcat-lib to version 9.0.36-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-lib package and not the tomcat-lib package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests sent to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M5, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.35 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.55 could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections, the server could become unresponsive.

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CVSS Scores

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