tomcat9 — security advisory
While investigating bug 64830 it was discovered that Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M9, 9.0.0-M1 to 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.
- Products
- tomcat9
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 9.0.40-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-17527
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
While investigating bug 64830 it was discovered that Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M9, 9.0.0-M1 to 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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17527
tomcat9
Fixed versions: 9.0.40-1
tomcat9
Fixed versions: 9.0.40-1
tomcat9
Fixed versions: 9.0.40-1
Complete source record
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