CVE-2017-6056
Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—
It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. The denial of service is easily achievable as a consequence of backporting a CVE-2016-6816 fix but not backporting the fix for Tomcat bug 57544. Distributions affected by this backporting issue include Debian (before 7.0.56-3+deb8u8 and 8.0.14-1+deb8u7 in jessie) and Ubuntu.
CVSS
- Version: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Base score: 7.5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 7.79%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 95
- Score date: 10/11/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (2)
CWEs
- CWE-835
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0517.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3787
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3788
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96293
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037860
- https://bugs.debian.org/851304
- https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60578
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ac51944aef91dd5006b8510b0bef337adaccfe962fb90e7af9c22db4%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00038.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00039.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0517.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3787
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3788
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96293
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037860
- https://bugs.debian.org/851304
- https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60578
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ac51944aef91dd5006b8510b0bef337adaccfe962fb90e7af9c22db4%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00038.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00039.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
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