GHSA-p22x-g9px-3945HighCVSS 7.5

Apache Tomcat may reject request containing invalid Content-Length header

Published
November 1, 2022
Last Modified
April 23, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header.

🎯 Affected products7

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.83
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 9.0.0-M1, < 9.0.68
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 10.0.0-M1, < 10.0.27
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 10.1.0-M1, < 10.1.1
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote:>= 9.0.0-M1, < 9.0.68
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote:>= 10.0.0-M1, < 10.0.27
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote:>= 10.1.0-M1, < 10.1.1

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