CVE-2020-11996
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 27%
exploitation probability
27%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 · Apache TomcatReferences
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