HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting jws5-tomcat package, versions <0:9.0.62-13.redhat_00011.1.el9jws


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-JWS5TOMCAT-3386383
  • published10 Nov 2022
  • disclosed31 Oct 2022

Introduced: 31 Oct 2022

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 jws5-tomcat to version 0:9.0.62-13.redhat_00011.1.el9jws or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:1663.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jws5-tomcat package and not the jws5-tomcat package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header.

CVSS Scores

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