CVE-2020-17527: Information Exposure

December 3, 2020 (updated September 14, 2021)

While investigating bug it was discovered that Apache Tomcat to to to could re-use an HTTP request header value from the previous stream received on an HTTP/2 connection for the request associated with the subsequent stream. While this would most likely lead to an error and the closure of the HTTP/2 connection, it is possible that information could leak between requests.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17527

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