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CVE-2012-5568
Apache Tomcat through 7.0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via partial HTTP requests, as…
Medium5.0EPSS 9.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Apache Tomcat through 7.0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via partial HTTP requests, as demonstrated by Slowloris.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 37 days later
· 37 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.6% · top 4.5% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- [oss-security] 20121125 Re: CVE Request: slowloris for tomcat (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1700 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 56686 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0147 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://captainholly.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/slowloris-vs-tomcat/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [users] 20090620 Re: How does Tomcat handle a slow HTTP DoS? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [users] 20090619 How does Tomcat handle a slow HTTP DoS? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880011 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1701 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- apache-tomcat-slowloris-dos(80317) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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