#VU114024 Resource exhaustion in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2025-48989

 

#VU114024 Resource exhaustion in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2025-48989

Published: August 13, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU114024
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-48989
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Apache Tomcat
Software vendor:
Apache Foundation

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP request to the web server and consume all available memory resources, leading to a denial of service. 

Note, this vulnerability is known as HTTP/2 Made You Reset Attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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