HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting tomcat9 package, versions <9.0.31-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.87% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-TOMCAT9-18001050
  • published17 Jul 2026
  • disclosed24 Feb 2020

Introduced: 24 Feb 2020

CVE-2019-17569  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest tomcat9 to version 9.0.31-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9 package and not the tomcat9 package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

The refactoring present in Apache Tomcat 9.0.28 to 9.0.30, 8.5.48 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.98 to 7.0.99 introduced a regression. The result of the regression was that invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were incorrectly processed leading 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1