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GHSA-wm9w-rjj3-j356

GitHub Security Advisory

Apache Tomcat - Denial of Service

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. When processing an HTTP/2 stream, Tomcat did not handle some cases of excessive HTTP headers correctly. This led to a miscounting of active HTTP/2 streams which in turn led to the use of an incorrect infinite timeout which allowed connections to remain open which should have been closed.

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 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.89. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M21, 10.1.25 or 9.0.90, which fixes the issue.

Affected Packages

Maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Affected versions: 11.0.0-M1 (fixed in 11.0.0-M21)
Maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Affected versions: 10.1.0-M1 (fixed in 10.1.25)
Maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Affected versions: 9.0.0-M1 (fixed in 9.0.90)
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote
Affected versions: 11.0.0-M1 (fixed in 11.0.0-M21)
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote
Affected versions: 10.1.0-M1 (fixed in 10.1.25)
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote
Affected versions: 9.0.0-M1 (fixed in 9.0.90)
Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote
Affected versions: 8.5.0 (last affected: 8.5.100)
Maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Affected versions: 8.5.0 (last affected: 8.5.100)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-wm9w-rjj3-j356
Published
July 3, 2024 9:39 PM
Last Modified
November 3, 2025 9:31 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 26, 2025 6:30 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.