Improper Input Validation Affecting tomcat-webapps package, versions <0:7.0.42-5.el7_0


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATWEBAPPS-4466861
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Feb 2014

Introduced: 25 Feb 2014

CVE-2013-4286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-webapps to version 0:7.0.42-5.el7_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:0686.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-webapps package and not the tomcat-webapps package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.47, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC3, when an HTTP connector or AJP connector is used, does not properly handle certain inconsistent HTTP request headers, which allows remote attackers to trigger incorrect identification of a request's length and conduct request-smuggling attacks via (1) multiple Content-Length headers or (2) a Content-Length header and a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-2090.

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