High severity · published Mar 13, 2024
CVE-2024-24549
Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat
7.5
CVSS
23.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected.
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)23.1% · higher than 98% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TO
Tomcat · Apache
8.5.0 before 8.5.99; 9.0.0 before 9.0.86; 10.1.0 before 10.1.19; 11.0.0; 11.0.0; 11.0.0; +13 more · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
39; 40 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24549
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24549
Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/4c50rmomhbbsdgfjsgwlb51xdwfjdcvg
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/13/3
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3UWIS5MMGYDZBLJYT674ZI5AWFHDZ46B/
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/736G4GPZWS2DSQO5WKXO3G6OMZKFEK55/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240402-0002/
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