GHSA-qxf4-chvg-4r8rMediumCVSS 4.8

Potential HTTP request smuggling in Apache Tomcat

Published
February 28, 2020
Last Modified
February 1, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99 the HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a reverse proxy is considered unlikely.

🎯 Affected products6

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:< 7.0.100
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 8.0.0, < 8.5.51
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.31
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:< 7.0.100
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.0.0, < 8.5.51
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.31

🔗 References (21)