HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.55) [8,8.0.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    94.8% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30935
  • published 16 Feb 2015
  • disclosed 16 Feb 2015
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote to version 7.0.55, 8.0.9 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote is a Tomcat Connectors and HTTP parser.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. It does not properly handle attempts to continue reading data after an error has occurred, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by streaming data with malformed chunked transfer coding.

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)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

4.3 medium