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CVE-2017-5650

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5650 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M18 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.12. A malicious client could exploit a flaw in HTTP/2 GOAWAY frame handling to consume all available processing threads, leading to a system outage. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-exploitable attack with low complexity and high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0828 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcatFixed in: 9.0.0.M19
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcatFixed in: 8.5.13

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-9785-w233-x6hvhigh

Improper Resource Shutdown or Release in Apache Tomcat

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-5650Important

tomcat: Handling of HTTP/2 GOAWAY frame for a connection did not close streams associated with that connection

Apr 10, 2017

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/6af47120905aa7d8fe12f42e8ff2284fb338ba141d3b77b8c7cb61b3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/88855876c33f2f9c532ffb75bfee570ccf0b17ffa77493745af9a17a%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/b5e3f51d28cd5d9b1809f56594f2cf63dcd6a90429e16ea9f83bbedc%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/d24303fb095db072740d8154b0f0db3f2b8f67bc91a0562dbe89c738%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/eb6efa8d59c45a7a9eff94c4b925467d3b3fec8ba7697f3daa314b04%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r3bbb800a816d0a51eccc5a228c58736960a9fffafa581a225834d97d%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r48c1444845fe15a823e1374674bfc297d5008a5453788099ea14caf0%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-09
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20180614-0001
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
securityfocus.com / bid/97531
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038217