Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 11:11
Modified
2026-09-08 08:34
Summary
Apache Tomcat: Request header mix-up between HTTP/2 streams
Details

While investigating bug 64830 it was discovered that Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 through 9.0.39 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.59 could re-use an HTTP request header value from the previous stream received on an HTTP/2 connection for the request associated with the subsequent stream. While this would most likely lead to an error and the closure of the HTTP/2 connection, it is possible that information could leak between requests.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "tomcat",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/tomcat"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "8.5.1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.5.60"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "9.0.1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "9.0.40"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-17527"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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  },
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  "id": "BIT-tomcat-2020-17527",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:11:37.082Z",
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    },
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  "summary": "Apache Tomcat: Request header mix-up between HTTP/2 streams"
}



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