CVE-2016-6817
At a glance Severity HIGH 7.5 EPSS EPSS 7.19 % · percentile 94 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2017-08-10 Updated 2024-10-15 Assigner apache NVD status Modified Description The HTTP/2 header parser in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M11 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.6 entered an infinite loop if a header was received that was larger than the available buffer. This made a denial of service attack possible.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.1 HIGH 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CISA-ADP CVSS 3.1 HIGH 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary) CVSS 3.0 HIGH 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
Weaknesses (CWE)
Advisories GHSA-698c-2x4j-g9gq — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apache TomcatEuropean references
Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone10:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone11:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone4:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone5:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone6:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone7:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone8:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:9.0.0:milestone9:*:*:*:*:*:*Affected products
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