CVE-2021-25122
HIGH7.5EPSS 2.8%Apache Tomcat h2c request mix-up
Published: 6/16/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
When responding to new h2c connection requests, Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.41 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.61 could duplicate request headers and a limited amount of request body from one request to another meaning user A and user B could both see the results of user A's request.
Affected packages (4)
- Bitnami/tomcat>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.62, >= 9.0.0, < 9.0.42, >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.1
- Debian/tomcat9from 0, < 9.0.43-1
- Debian/tomcat9from 0, < 9.0.31-1~deb10u4
- Maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.2
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 (25)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25122
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-25122
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7@%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7@%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7b95bc248603360501f18c8eb03bb6001ec0ee3296205b34b07105b7%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcd90bf36b1877e1310b87ecd14ed7bbb15da52b297efd9f0e7253a3b@%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcd90bf36b1877e1310b87ecd14ed7bbb15da52b297efd9f0e7253a3b%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0463f9a5cbc02a485404c4b990f0da452e5ac5c237808edba11c947@%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0463f9a5cbc02a485404c4b990f0da452e5ac5c237808edba11c947%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6d5d57b114678d8898005faef31e9fd6d7c981fcc4ccfc3bc272fc9@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6d5d57b114678d8898005faef31e9fd6d7c981fcc4ccfc3bc272fc9%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00018.html
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-34
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210409-0002
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210409-0002/
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4891
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/01/1