CVE-2025-48988

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.

How to fix CVE-2025-48988

To remediate CVE-2025-48988, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 9.0.106 or later
• —upgrade to 10.1.52-1~deb12u1 or later
• —upgrade to 11.0.15-1~deb13u1 or later
• —upgrade to 9.0.107-0+deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 11.0.8 or later
• —upgrade to 11.0.8 or later

Is CVE-2025-48988 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (6)

• from 0, < 9.0.106, >= 10.0.0, < 10.1.42, >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.8
• from 0, < 10.1.52-1~deb12u1
• from 0, < 11.0.15-1~deb13u1
• from 0, < 9.0.107-0+deb11u1
• >= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8
• >= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8

CVSS scores

References (12)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48988
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-48988
• PATCHgithub.com/apache/tomcat
• WEBgithub.com/apache/tomcat/commit/2b0ab14fb55d4edc896e5f1817f2ab76f714ae5e