CVE-2020-13934
HIGH7.5EPSS 23.4%Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apache Tomcat
Published: 2/8/2022Modified: 5/20/2026
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 packages (5)
- Bitnami/tomcat>= 8.5.1, < 8.5.57, >= 9.0.1, < 9.0.37
- Debian/tomcat8from 0, < 8.5.54-0+deb9u3
- Debian/tomcat9from 0, < 9.0.37-1
- Maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat>= 10.0.0-M1, < 10.0.0-M6
- Maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote>= 10.0.0-M1, < 10.0.0-M6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (19)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13934
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-13934
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/tomcat
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00084.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00088.html
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61f411cf82488d6ec213063fc15feeeb88e31b0ca9c29652ee4f962e%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra072b1f786e7d139e86f1d1145572e0ff71cef38a96d9c6f5362aac8@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra072b1f786e7d139e86f1d1145572e0ff71cef38a96d9c6f5362aac8%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00017.html
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200724-0003
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200724-0003/
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4596-1
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4596-1/
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4727
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html