CVE-2019-10072
tomcat: HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write, incomplete fix of CVE-2019-0199
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · June 21, 2019
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.19 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.40 . By not sending WINDOW_UPDATE messages for the connection window (stream 0) clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading to thread exhaustion and a DoS.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
pki-servlet-container does not use HTTP/2 in its default configuration.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption