GHSA-f2gq-p6qv-ccw4Medium

Tomcat Vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning

Published
May 1, 2022
Last Modified
September 18, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.19 (Coyote/1.1) and Tomcat 4.1.24 (Coyote/1.0) allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header, which causes Tomcat to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that causes the receiving server to process it as a separate HTTP request, aka "HTTP Request Smuggling."

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.19
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 4.0.0, <= 4.1.24

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