SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (GHSA-q4hg-rmq2-52q9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422899

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2019-10072)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q4hg-rmq2-52q9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422899

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10072

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10072

BID: 108874

cwe: CWE-667