CVE-2025-48988
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 30.4%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.7, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.41, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.105. 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 11.0.8, 10.1.42 or 9.0.106, which fix the issue.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 30.43% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- apache/tomcat
- Source
- security@apache.org
EPSS 30.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/nzkqsok8t42qofgqfmck536mtyzygp18Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/16/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00009.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.