HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting tomcat9 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-TOMCAT9-1137738
  • published22 Aug 2025
  • disclosed24 Feb 2020

Introduced: 24 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-1935  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:18.04 tomcat9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9 package and not the tomcat9 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99 the HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a reverse proxy is considered unlikely.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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