Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of simultaneous…

Description

Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of simultaneous requests to list a web directory that has a large number of files.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.0% · top 6.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcatGHSA-8f4w-jwqv-5cxc (opens in a new tab)

References (22)

• RHSA-2006:0161 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 30908 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 17416 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 239312 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• 20439 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 30899 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 15325 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2008-1979 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20090127 CA20090123-01: Cohesion Tomcat Multiple Vulnerabilities (Updated - v1.1) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 33668 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20090124 CA20090123-01: Cohesion Tomcat Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20051104 Apache Tomcat 5.5.x remote Denial Of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• ADV-2009-0233 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1015147 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0261 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-8f4w-jwqv-5cxc (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 23:17 UTC.