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zdiJohn Simpson of Trend Micro Security ResearchZDI-19-582
HistoryJun 21, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

Apache Tomcat reserveWindowSize Denial-Of-Service Vulnerability

2019-06-2100:00:00
John Simpson of Trend Micro Security Research
www.zerodayinitiative.com
18

EPSS

0.17

Percentile

96.1%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on vulnerable installations of Apache Tomcat. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of HTTP2 requests. A crafted HTTP2 request can create a deadlock on a worker thread. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create a denial-of-service condition on the system.