vulnerability

Apache Tomcat: Important: Denial of Service (CVE-2023-44487)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 11, 2023
Added
Oct 11, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

Solutions

apache-tomcat-upgrade-10_1_14apache-tomcat-upgrade-8_5_94apache-tomcat-upgrade-9_0_81
Title
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