CVE•Published 2020-10-12•Modified 2026-10-08•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2020-13943Apache · Tomcat
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
4.3
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS percentile
99
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 1% of all CVEs
Description
If an HTTP/2 client connecting to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M7, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.37 or 8.5.0 to 8.5.57 exceeded the agreed maximum number of concurrent streams for a connection (in violation of the HTTP/2 protocol), it was possible that a subsequent request made on that connection could contain HTTP headers - including HTTP/2 pseudo headers - from a previous request rather than the intended headers. This could lead to users seeing responses for unexpected resources.
Timeline
Published 2020-10-12
Modified 2026-10-08
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2020-13943Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Apache Tomcat" version:"8.5.0"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Tomcat"HTTP body or banner mentions "Tomcat" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2020-13943Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2020-13943Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2020-13943Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2020-13943GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2020-13943" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (2)
CVE-2020-139432 repos
xairy/linux-kernel-exploitationunknown
A collection of links related to Linux kernel security and exploitation
m3n0sd0n4ld/uCVEGo
uCVE is a tool written in GO that allows to extract CVE's related to a specific software and version, obtaining a report in HTML format with the result and/or exporting it to the p…