RHSA-2025:14178 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for tomcat9 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.

Security Fix(es):

• tomcat: Apache Tomcat DoS in multipart upload (CVE-2025-48988)
• tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Security constraint bypass for pre/post-resources (CVE-2025-49125)
• apache-commons-fileupload: Apache Commons FileUpload DoS via part headers (CVE-2025-48976)
• tomcat: http/2 "MadeYouReset" DoS attack through HTTP/2 control frames (CVE-2025-48989)
• tomcat: Apache Tomcat denial of service (CVE-2025-52520)
• tomcat: Apache Tomcat denial of service (CVE-2025-52434)
• tomcat: Apache Tomcat denial of service (CVE-2025-53506)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2373015 - CVE-2025-48988 tomcat: Apache Tomcat DoS in multipart upload
• BZ - 2373018 - CVE-2025-49125 tomcat: Apache Tomcat: Security constraint bypass for pre/post-resources
• BZ - 2373020 - CVE-2025-48976 apache-commons-fileupload: Apache Commons FileUpload DoS via part headers
• BZ - 2373309 - CVE-2025-48989 tomcat: http/2 "MadeYouReset" DoS attack through HTTP/2 control frames
• BZ - 2379374 - CVE-2025-52520 tomcat: Apache Tomcat denial of service
• BZ - 2379382 - CVE-2025-52434 tomcat: Apache Tomcat denial of service
• BZ - 2379386 - CVE-2025-53506 tomcat: Apache Tomcat denial of service

CVEs

• CVE-2025-48976
• CVE-2025-48988
• CVE-2025-48989
• CVE-2025-49125
• CVE-2025-52434
• CVE-2025-52520
• CVE-2025-53506

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important