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Apache Tomcat Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2020-11996 - Vulnerability Database
Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2020-11996

High
Reference: CVE-2020-11996
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11996
Title: Apache Tomcat Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability
Overview:

A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests sent to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M5 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.35 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.55 could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections the server could become unresponsive.