Apache Tomcat 9.0.x < 9.0.16 DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 700710

Synopsis

The remote Apache Tomcat server is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 9.0.16. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the fixed_in_apache_tomcat_9.0.16_security-9 advisory.

- The HTTP/2 implementation accepted streams with excessive numbers of SETTINGS frames and also permitted clients to keep streams open without reading/writing request/response data. By keeping streams open for requests that utilised the Servlet API's blocking I/O, clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading to thread exhaustion and a DoS. (CVE-2019-0199)

Note that Nessus Network Monitor has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Apache Tomcat version 9.0.16 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 700710

Family: Web Servers

Published: 5/13/2019

Updated: 5/13/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apache:tomcat

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0199

Detections

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