Resource Management Errors Affecting tomcat package, versions [0,8.5.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
63.56% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382402
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-5650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 8.5.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M18 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.12, the handling of an HTTP/2 GOAWAY frame for a connection did not close streams associated with that connection that were currently waiting for a WINDOW_UPDATE before allowing the application to write more data. These waiting streams each consumed a thread. A malicious client could therefore construct a series of HTTP/2 requests that would consume all available processing threads.

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