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Critical 1 exploited CVE DSA-4680-1 6 CVEs

tomcat9 - security update

Published May 6, 2020 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 10 tomcat9 9.0.31-1~deb10u1

Vulnerabilities 6

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2020-1938 Exploited Public exploit Scanner template EPSS 99%

    Improper Privilege Management in Tomcat

    When using the Apache JServ Protocol (AJP), care must be taken when trusting incoming connections to Apache Tomcat. Tomcat treats AJP connections as having higher trust than, for example, a similar HTTP connection. If such connections are available to an atta…

    KEV Mar 3, 2022
  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-10072 EPSS 73%

    Improper Locking in Apache Tomcat

    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 wer…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-17563 EPSS 11%

    In Apache Tomcat, when using FORM authentication there was a narrow window where an attacker could perform a session fixation attack

    When using FORM authentication with Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.29, 8.5.0 to 8.5.49 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.98 there was a narrow window where an attacker could perform a session fixation attack. The window was considered too narrow for an exploit to be practical …

  • High 7.0

    Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Apache Tomcat

    When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man…

  • Medium 4.8

    Potential HTTP request smuggling in Apache Tomcat

    The refactoring present in Apache Tomcat 9.0.28 to 9.0.30, 8.5.48 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.98 to 7.0.99 introduced a regression. The result of the regression was that invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were incorrectly processed leading to a possibility of HTTP Reque…

  • Medium 4.8

    Potential HTTP request smuggling in Apache Tomcat

    In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99 the HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if …