CVE-2020-17527
HIGH7.5EPSS 10.5%Apache Tomcat: Request header mix-up between HTTP/2 streams
Published: 2/9/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
While investigating bug 64830 it was discovered that Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M9, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.39 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.59 could re-use an HTTP request header value from the previous stream received on an HTTP/2 connection for the request associated with the subsequent stream. While this would most likely lead to an error and the closure of the HTTP/2 connection, it is possible that information could leak between requests.
Affected packages (4)
- Bitnami/tomcat>= 8.5.1, < 8.5.60, >= 9.0.1, < 9.0.40
- Debian/tomcat8from 0, < 8.5.54-0+deb9u5
- Debian/tomcat9from 0, < 9.0.40-1
- Maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote>= 10.0.0-M1, < 10.0.0-M10
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:H/I:N/A:N |
References (50)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17527
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-17527
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/tomcat
- WEBhttps://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64830
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/21e3408671aac7e0d7e264e720cac8b1b189eb29
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/8d2fe6894d6e258a6d615d7f786acca80e6020cb
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/d56293f816d6dc9e2b47107f208fa9e95db58c65
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- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00022.html
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-23
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201210-0003
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201210-0003/
- WEBhttps://tomcat.apache.org/security-10.html
- WEBhttps://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html
- WEBhttps://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4835
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/03/3