CVE-2019-10072
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CVE-2019-10072 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.19 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.40 . By not sending WINDOW_UPDATE messages for the connection window (stream 0) clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading to thread exhaustion and a DoS.. EPSS estimates a 72.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.19 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.40 . By not sending WINDOW_UPDATE messages for the connection window (stream 0) clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading to thread exhaustion and a DoS.
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Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | Tomcat | >= 8.5.0, <= 8.5.40 | — |
| Apache | Tomcat | >= 9.0.1, <= 9.0.19 | — |
| Apache | Tomcat | 9.0.0 | Milestone1 |
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