A flaw was found in Apache Tomcat, where the HTTP/2 implementation accepted streams with excessive numbers of SETTINGS frames and also permitted clients to keep streams open, which enables them to cause server-side threads to block. This flaw eventually leads to a denial of service attack.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | tomcat8 | 2019-05-16 23:11 | ALAS-2019-1208 |
Amazon Linux 1 | tomcat8 | 2019-07-17 23:21 | ALAS-2019-1234 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |