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AIKIDO-2024-10008

tomcat-embed-core is vulnerable to DOS

DOSCVE-2024-24549 Published Mar 13, 2024

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High Risk

This Affects:

Javatomcat-embed-core
8.5.0 - 8.5.98
Fixed in 8.5.99
9.0.0 - 9.0.85
Fixed in 9.0.86
10.0.0 - 10.1.18
Fixed in 10.1.19
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack if the Tomcat server is configured to allow HTTP/2 requests.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you use Tomcat (within the affected versions) to process HTTP/2 requests without a load balancer in front of it.

Background info

tomcat-embed-core is vulnerable to DOS in versions 10.0.0 - 10.1.18, 9.0.0 - 9.0.85 and 8.5.0 - 8.5.98.

How to fix this

Upgrade Tomcat to any of the patched versions.