Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat:coyote package, versions [6,6.0.27)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
68.92% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30857
  • published10 Jan 2014
  • disclosed13 Jul 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jul 2010

CVE-2010-2227  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:coyote to version 6.0.27 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:coyote is a maven plugin for Tomcat Connectors and HTTP parser.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Does not properly handle an invalid Transfer-Encoding header, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application outage) or obtain sensitive information via a crafted header that interferes with "recycling of a buffer."

CVSS Scores

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