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Apache Tomcat: Important: Denial of Service (CVE-2024-24549)

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Apache Tomcat: Important: Denial of Service (CVE-2024-24549)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/14/2024
Created
03/15/2024
Added
03/14/2024
Modified
03/15/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • apache-tomcat-upgrade-10_1_19
  • apache-tomcat-upgrade-8_5_99
  • apache-tomcat-upgrade-9_0_86

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