HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote package, versions [8.5.0,8.5.53)[9.0.0-M1,9.0.68)[10.0.0-M1,10.0.27)[10.1.0-M1,10.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-3097828
  • published2 Nov 2022
  • disclosed1 Nov 2022
  • creditSam Shahsavar

Introduced: 1 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-42252  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote to version 8.5.53, 9.0.68, 10.0.27, 10.1.1 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 when improper requests containing an invalid Content-Length header are not being properly rejected.

Note: Exploiting this vulnerability is also possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header.

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