GHSA-vf77-8h7g-gghpHighCVSS 7.5

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apache Tomcat

Published
February 8, 2022
Last Modified
May 20, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An h2c direct connection to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M6, 9.0.0.M5 to 9.0.36 and 8.5.1 to 8.5.56 did not release the HTTP/1.1 processor after the upgrade to HTTP/2. If a sufficient number of such requests were made, an OutOfMemoryException could occur leading to a denial of service.

🎯 Affected products6

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 10.0.0-M1, <= 10.0.0-M5
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 9.0.0.M5, < 9.0.36
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.5.1, < 8.5.56
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote:>= 10.0.0-M1, <= 10.0.0-M5
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote:>= 9.0.0.M5, < 9.0.36
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote:>= 8.5.1, < 8.5.56

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