Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote package, versions [5.5.0,5.5.30) [6.0.0,6.0.28) [7.0.0,7.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    59.4% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30920
  • published 10 Jan 2014
  • disclosed 13 Jul 2010
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote to version 5.5.30, 6.0.28, 7.0.2 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote is a 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

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

6.5 medium