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CVE-2020-11996
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 26.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-06-26 · updated 2026-10-08
Description
A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests sent to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M5, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.35 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.55 could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections, the server could become unresponsive.
Affected products
- Apache Tomcat: from 8.5.0 through 8.5.55; from 9.0.0 through 9.0.35; 9.0.0-milestone1, 9.0.0-milestone10, 9.0.0-milestone11, 9.0.0-milestone12, 9.0.0-milestone13, 9.0.0-milestone14 (+26)
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 20.04
- Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
- OnCommand System Manager 9.x: 3.0, 3.1.3
- openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2
- Oracle Corporation MySQL Enterprise Monitor: through 8.0.21
- Oracle Corporation Siebel UI Framework: through 20.12
- Oracle Workload Manager: 12.2.0.1, 18c, 19c
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00072.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2529016c311ce9485e6f173446d469600fdfbb94dccadfcd9dfdac79%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3ea96d8f36dd404acce83df8aeb22a9e807d6c13ca9c5dec72f872cd%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5541ef6b6b68b49f76fc4c45695940116da2bcbe0312ef204a00a2e0%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5a4f80a6acc6607d61dae424b643b594c6188dd4e1eff04705c10db2%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6c29801370a36c1a5159679269777ad0c73276d3015b8bbefea66e5c%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r74f5a8204efe574cbfcd95b2a16236fe95beb45c4d9fee3dc789dca9%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8f3d416c193bc9384a8a7dd368623d441f5fcaff1057115008100561%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8f7484589454638af527182ae55ef5b628ba00c05c5b11887c922fb1%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r93ca628ef3a4530dfe5ac49fddc795f0920a4b2a408b57a30926a42b%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9ad911fe49450ed9405827af0e7a74104041081ff91864b1f2546bbd%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
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