HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote package, versions [7.0.98,7.0.100) [8.5.48,8.5.51) [9.0.28,9.0.31)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.34% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-552156
  • published 25 Feb 2020
  • disclosed 24 Feb 2020
  • credit @ZeddYu

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote to version 7.0.100, 8.5.51, 9.0.31 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. Invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were incorrectly processed, leading to possible information exposure if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

4.8 medium
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SUSE

4.8 medium
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Red Hat

4.3 medium