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Apache Tomcat Mishandles Character Sequence in Cookies

Published
May 1, 2022
Last Modified
April 9, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.13, 5.5.0 to 5.5.24, 5.0.0 to 5.0.30, 4.1.0 to 4.1.36, and 3.3 to 3.3.2 does not properly handle the \" character sequence in a cookie value, which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked to remote attackers and enable session hijacking attacks.

🎯 Affected products5

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 6.0.0, <= 6.0.13
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.24
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.30
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 4.1.0, <= 4.1.36
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 3.3.0, <= 3.3.2

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