CVE-2020-17527

medium
Published 2022-02-09 · Modified 2024-03-11
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-17527

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17527.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-3

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed9.0.40-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed9.0.40-1
debian debianbullseyefixed9.0.40-1
debian debianforkyfixed9.0.40-1
debian debiansidfixed9.0.40-1
debian debiantrixiefixed9.0.40-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote>=10.0.0-M1,<10.0.0-M1010.0.0-M10
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote>=9.0.0-M1,<9.0.409.0.40
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote>=8.5.0,<8.5.608.5.60

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.