CVE-2016-6817

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

7%p94

Published

Aug 10, 2017 (Aug 10, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The HTTP/2 header parser in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M11 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.6 entered an infinite loop if a header was received that was larger than the available buffer. This made a denial of service attack possible.

Vendors: apache
Products: tomcat
Weakness: CWE-119, CWE-835
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (7.2%)

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