RHSA-2025:7497MediumCVSS 8.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update

Published
May 13, 2025
Last Modified
September 28, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (11)

CVE-2024-23672 →CVE-2024-52316 →CVE-2024-54677 →CVE-2024-56337 →CVE-2023-42795 →CVE-2023-45648 →CVE-2023-46589 →CVE-2024-24549 →CVE-2025-24813 →CVE-2023-41080 →CVE-2023-44487 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-41080 — tomcat: Open Redirect vulnerability in FORM authentication CVE-2023-42795 — tomcat: improper cleaning of recycled objects could lead to information leak CVE-2023-44487 — HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) CVE-2023-45648 — tomcat: incorrectly parsed http trailer headers can cause request smuggling CVE-2023-46589 — tomcat: HTTP request smuggling via malformed trailer headers CVE-2024-23672 — Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake CVE-2024-24549 — Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS CVE-2024-52316 — tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Authentication bypass when using Jakarta Authentication API CVE-2024-54677 — tomcat: Apache Tomcat: DoS in examples web application CVE-2024-56337 — tomcat: Incomplete fix for CVE-2024-50379 - RCE due to TOCTOU issue in JSP compilation CVE-2025-24813 — tomcat: Potential RCE and/or information disclosure and/or information corruption with partial PUT

🎯 Affected products10

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-admin-webapps-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-docs-webapp-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-el-5.0-api-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-jsp-3.1-api-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-lib-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-servlet-6.0-api-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • tomcat-webapps-1:10.1.36-1.el10_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: No mitigation is currently available for this flaw. Workaround: Users are strongly urged to update their software as soon as fixes are available. There are several mitigation approaches for this flaw. 1. If circumstances permit, users may disable http2 endpoints to circumvent the flaw altogether until a fix is available. 2. IP-based blocking or flood protection and rate control tools may be used at network endpoints to filter incoming traffic. 3. Several package specific mitigations are also available. a. nginx: https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-2-rapid-reset-attack-impacting-f5-nginx-products/ b. netty: https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p c. haproxy: https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-is-not-affected-by-the-http-2-rapid-reset-attack-cve-2023-44487 d. nghttp2: https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/security/advisories/GHSA-vx74-f528-fxqg e. golang: The default stream concurrency limit in golang is 250 streams (requests) per HTTP/2 connection. This value may be adjusted in the golang.org/x/net/http2 package using the Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting and the ConfigureServer function which are available in golang.org/x/net/http2. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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