Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-13935  

An issue has been found in Apache Tomcat before 8.5.57 and before 9.0.37, where an h2c direct connection 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.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An issue has been found in Apache Tomcat before 8.5.57 and before 9.0.37, where an h4c direct connection 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.

AVG-1205 tomcat9 9.0.35-1 High Vulnerable

AVG-1204 tomcat8 8.5.56-1 High Vulnerable

https://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_8.5.57
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/12d715676038efbf9c728af10163f8277fc019d5
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/172977f04a5215128f1e278a688983dcd230f399