Apache Tomcat Denial of Service Vulnerability Affects Multiple Versions
CVE-2024-24549

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Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 March 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat. When processing an HTTP/2 request, if the request exceeded any of the configured limits for headers, the associated HTTP/2 stream was not reset until after all of the headers had been processed.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue.

Affected Version(s)

Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M1 <= 11.0.0-M16

Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 <= 10.1.18

Apache Tomcat 9.0.0-M1 <= 9.0.85

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

References

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Bartek Nowotarski
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