CVE-2025-48988

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been identified in Apache Tomcat, concerning its handling of upload limits. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted request containing an excessively large number of multipart sections. This malicious request can trigger excessive memory consumption on the Tomcat server, ultimately leading to resource exhaustion and a denial-of-service condition.

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 for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.