Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2025-07-17 08:09
Modified
2026-03-20 12:05
Summary
Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS
Details

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 through 11.0.0, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0 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, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "tomcat",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/tomcat"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "8.5.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.5.99"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "9.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "9.0.86"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "10.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "10.1.19"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-24549"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:maven:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "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 through 11.0.0, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue.",
  "id": "BIT-tomcat-2024-24549",
  "modified": "2026-03-20T12:05:40.000Z",
  "published": "2025-07-17T08:09:49.355Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/13/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/4c50rmomhbbsdgfjsgwlb51xdwfjdcvg"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00001.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3UWIS5MMGYDZBLJYT674ZI5AWFHDZ46B/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/736G4GPZWS2DSQO5WKXO3G6OMZKFEK55/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24549"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240402-0002/"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS"
}


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