HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core 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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-3097829
  • published 2 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 1 Nov 2022
  • credit Sam Shahsavar

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 8.5.53, 9.0.68, 10.0.27, 10.1.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core is a Core Tomcat implementation.

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.

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

7.5 high
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SUSE

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

4.8 medium