CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-11996

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
26.70%

98th percentile - higher than 98% of all known CVEs

Summary

A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests sent to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M5, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.35 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.55 could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections, the server could become unresponsive.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by exhausting the CPU resources of the Tomcat server.

Recommendation

Upgrade Apache Tomcat to a version beyond the affected ranges (10.0.0-M6+, 9.0.36+, 8.5.56+).

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Original NVD description (English source)

A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests sent to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M5, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.35 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.55 could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections, the server could become unresponsive.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS