`CVE-2024-54677` Apache Tomcat

Affected software	Apache Tomcat
Severity	5.3 Medium CVSS 3.1
Fixed in	`11.0.2`, `10.1.34`, `9.0.98`
Weakness	Uncontrolled resource consumption (CWE-400)
Published	17 Dec 2024
Updated	17 Jun 2026

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the examples web application provided with Apache Tomcat leads to denial of service. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.1, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.33, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.9.97. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.2, 10.1.34 or 9.0.98, which fixes the issue.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published a year ago.

CISA KEV not listed
VulnCheck KEV not listed
CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
Indexed PoC none indexed
EPSS 1.9% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

A public code fix exists: apache/tomcat f57a9d9.

Protection none
Action unverified
Review automated Upstream data
Record active

Decided by	Exploit code for this candidate, published in a reviewed catalogue or a GitHub repository with 5 or more stars, or in use per CISA or VulnCheck; not only a CISA verdict, a forecast, or nothing at all
Finding	This CVE is not listed in CISA KEV or VulnCheck KEV, CISA Vulnrichment records no active exploitation, no reviewed exploit catalogue carries an entry for it, and no GitHub PoC repository for it has 5 or more stars. Nobody has published exploit code worth tracing, so it is not a candidate for a rule ahead of the ones where somebody has; an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds. This is a statement about what has been published, not about whether the defect is reachable or serious.

Decided by

Exploit code for this candidate, published in a reviewed catalogue or a GitHub repository with 5 or more stars, or in use per CISA or VulnCheck; not only a CISA verdict, a forecast, or nothing at all

Finding

This CVE is not listed in CISA KEV or VulnCheck KEV, CISA Vulnrichment records no active exploitation, no reviewed exploit catalogue carries an entry for it, and no GitHub PoC repository for it has 5 or more stars. Nobody has published exploit code worth tracing, so it is not a candidate for a rule ahead of the ones where somebody has; an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds. This is a statement about what has been published, not about whether the defect is reachable or serious.

Affected software and releases

Oracle advisories

Advisory	Type	Quarter	Products Oracle names in its risk matrix
Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2025 ↗	CPU	2025-Q2	Oracle Communications / Automated Test Suite (Apache Tomcat) (24.2.0) Oracle Communications / BEServer (Apache Tomcat) (24.3.0) Oracle Financial Services Applications / Installer (Apache Tomcat) (8.1.2.7.0) Oracle Fusion Middleware / Runtime Server (Apache Tomcat) (12.2.1.4.0) Oracle Supply Chain / Document Management (Apache Tomcat) (6.2.1)
Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2025 ↗	CPU	2025-Q1	Oracle Communications / Configuration Management Platform (Apache Tomcat) (15.0.0.0.0)

Advisory

Type

Quarter

Products Oracle names in its risk matrix

Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2025 ↗

CPU

2025-Q2

Oracle Communications / Automated Test Suite (Apache Tomcat) (24.2.0)
Oracle Communications / BEServer (Apache Tomcat) (24.3.0)
Oracle Financial Services Applications / Installer (Apache Tomcat) (8.1.2.7.0)
Oracle Fusion Middleware / Runtime Server (Apache Tomcat) (12.2.1.4.0)
Oracle Supply Chain / Document Management (Apache Tomcat) (6.2.1)

Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2025 ↗

CPU

2025-Q1

Oracle Communications / Configuration Management Platform (Apache Tomcat) (15.0.0.0.0)

Oracle components and versions

Family	Component	Versions, as Oracle lists them	Read as
Oracle Communications	Automated Test Suite (Apache Tomcat)	24.2.0	24.2.0
Oracle Communications	BEServer (Apache Tomcat)	24.3.0	24.3.0
Oracle Communications	Configuration Management Platform (Apache Tomcat)	15.0.0.0.0	15.0.0.0.0
Oracle Financial Services Applications	Installer (Apache Tomcat)	8.1.2.7.0	8.1.2.7.0
Oracle Fusion Middleware	Runtime Server (Apache Tomcat)	12.2.1.4.0	12.2.1.4.0
Oracle Supply Chain	Document Management (Apache Tomcat)	6.2.1	6.2.1

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev

Package Introduced Fixed Last affected

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 11.0.0-M1 11.0.2 unbounded

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 10.1.0-M1 10.1.34 unbounded

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 9.0.0.M1 9.0.98 unbounded

Package	Introduced	Fixed	Last affected
`org.apache.tomcat:tomcat`	11.0.0-M1	`11.0.2`	unbounded
`org.apache.tomcat:tomcat`	10.1.0-M1	`10.1.34`	unbounded
`org.apache.tomcat:tomcat`	9.0.0.M1	`9.0.98`	unbounded

Products and versions

3 products, 7 version entries

Source	Vendor	Product	Scheme	Affected versions
nvd	apache	tomcat	generic	≥ 9.0.0 and ＜ 9.0.98 · ≥ 10.1.0 and ＜ 10.1.34 · ≥ 11.0.0 and ＜ 11.0.2
nvd	netapp	bootstrap os	generic	any version
osv	org.apache.tomcat	tomcat	generic	≥ 9.0.0 and ＜ 9.0.98 · ≥ 10.1.0 and ＜ 10.1.34 · ≥ 11.0.0 and ＜ 11.0.2

Source

Vendor

Product

Scheme

Affected versions

nvd

apache

tomcat

generic

≥ 9.0.0 and ＜ 9.0.98 · ≥ 10.1.0 and ＜ 10.1.34 · ≥ 11.0.0 and ＜ 11.0.2

nvd

netapp

bootstrap os

generic

any version

osv

org.apache.tomcat

tomcat

generic

≥ 9.0.0 and ＜ 9.0.98 · ≥ 10.1.0 and ＜ 10.1.34 · ≥ 11.0.0 and ＜ 11.0.2

References

URL	Tags
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/f57a9d9847c1038be61f5818d73b8be907c460d4	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/e8c16cdba833884e1bd49fff1f1cb699da177585	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/dbec927859d9484cb8bd680a7c67b1a560f48444	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/d63a10afc142b12f462a15f7d10f79fd80ff94eb	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/cb1707685472994e9d924746f8c91cb116fa5213	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/c2f7ce21c3fb12caefee87c517a8bb4f80700044	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/c0a23927ea5e061ca3fdff695138464179fe674a	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/bbd82e9593314ade4cfd57248f9285fbad686f66	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/aa5b4d0043289cf054f531ec55126c980d3572e1	WEB
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/a95bf2b0303442a2c9a1ac364b0e63b56049e33a	WEB

URL

Timeline

Published	2024-12-17	By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified	2026-06-17	NVD's own last-modified date for this record.

Published

2024-12-17

By the CVE Program.

NVD record modified

2026-06-17

NVD's own last-modified date for this record.

How VRT decided (17 of 24 rules ran)

17 of 24 rules ran. The rest didn't run because an earlier rule had already settled the CVE.

# Rule Outcome Status Detail

identity: Does this identifier describe a vulnerability at all? the first rule that matches decides

1 rejected no match CVE Program withdrawal of this identifier

scope: Is it a vulnerability Waratek protects? the first rule that matches decides

2 armr-patch-file no match An ARMR patch file on disk for this CVE

3 armr-secure-rule-file no match An ARMR security-rule template on disk for this CVE

4 manual-classification no match A researcher's recorded decision for this specific CVE

5 manual classification no match Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset

6 non-java-upstream no match A root cause in non-Java code: an OS kernel, a C library, or a bundled runtime

7 oracle-component no match The defect being in a component of a tracked product the agent does not reach: JavaFX, the Java SE installer, the JInitiator browser plug-in, the native WebLogic proxy plug-in, or a native part of Oracle Application Server or Collaboration Suite (HTTP Server, Web Cache, Internet Directory, mail and calendar servers). Oracle gives these no CPE of their own and names them only in the description.

8 java-client-side no match Oracle's own risk-matrix note saying the CVE is reached only through untrusted code in the Java sandbox (applets, Web Start) or only through a client installation of Java, so a server running its own trusted code is not exposed

9 osv-maven matched In scope Maven packages: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat

10 cna-maven-package not reached An affected Maven artifact named by the CNA itself

11 known-cpe-product not reached An NVD CPE naming a product ARMR tracks

12 cna-cpe-product not reached A CPE the CNA published naming a tracked product. Oracle publishes these on advisory day, months before NVD.

13 oracle-advisory-family not reached A tracked product family named in Oracle's own risk matrix. CPE cannot carry a suite name, only a module.

14 cna-named-product not reached A tracked product named in words by the CVE's own CNA, on a record with no CPE yet. Apache and Eclipse publish these on advisory day, before NVD adds CPE data.

15 non-deployable-product not reached The only affected product being a sealed appliance image, where Java runs but no -javaagent can be attached

16 unmatched-product not reached No tracked product matched above, and none present at all

disposition: What do we do about one that is? every rule runs

17 patch-hint no match A reference pointing at the upstream fix: a commit, a PR, a Red Hat bug

18 open-source-maven matched Mitigation candidate Open-source Maven artifact indexed by OSV (Maven packages: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat). The source is public, which makes an ARMR patch rule a candidate; nothing here establishes that one can be written.

19 poc-derivable skipped An indexed exploit clearing the evidence bar to reverse-engineer, where there is no source to read

20 no-exploit skipped Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read

21 secure-rule-match no match A vulnerability class already blocked by an ARMR security rule

22 exploited-no-fix-or-poc skipped Somebody exploiting this CVE (a CISA or VulnCheck KEV listing, or a CISA verdict of active exploitation), with no fix, source code or PoC to build a rule from

23 below-action-threshold withheld CVE ships in Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2025, Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2025 (CPU) — Oracle treats it as urgent, so severity does not settle it

24 no-exploit-published decided it matched No exploit published No exploit code has been published, and an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds.

Products the scope rules checked

The products this CVE's record names, and whether VRT tracks each one. The scope rules decided on these.

Vendor Product Tracked CPE Source

apache tomcat tracked cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* yaml

netapp bootstrap_os not tracked cpe:2.3:o:netapp:bootstrap_os:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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