ghsa-25xr-qj8w-c4vf
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-07-10 21:31
Modified
2025-11-05 20:30
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U
Summary
Apache Tomcat Coyote vulnerable to Denial of Service via excessive HTTP/2 streams
Details

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Tomcat if an HTTP/2 client did not acknowledge the initial settings frame that reduces the maximum permitted concurrent streams.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.8, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.42, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.106. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 through 8.5.100.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.9, 10.1.43 or 9.0.107, which fix the issue.

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  "affected": [
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote"
      },
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    },
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      },
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        }
      ]
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  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-53506"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-07-11T13:50:26Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-07-10T20:15:26Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Tomcat if an HTTP/2 client did not acknowledge the initial settings frame that reduces the maximum permitted concurrent streams.\n\nThis issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.8, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.42, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.106. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 through 8.5.100.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.9, 10.1.43 or 9.0.107, which fix the issue.",
  "id": "GHSA-25xr-qj8w-c4vf",
  "modified": "2025-11-05T20:30:16Z",
  "published": "2025-07-10T21:31:53Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53506"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/2aa6261276ebe50b99276953591e3a2be7898bdb"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/434772930f362145516dd60681134e7f0cf8115b"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/be8f330f83ceddaf3baeed57522e571572b6b99b"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/tomcat"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/p09775q0rd185m6zz98krg0fp45j8kr0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00009.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/10/13"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Apache Tomcat Coyote vulnerable to Denial of Service via excessive HTTP/2 streams"
}


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