Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat
CVE-2005-2090
Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.19 (Coyote/1.1) and Tomcat 4.1.24 (Coyote/1.0) allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header, which causes Tomcat to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that causes the receiving server to process it as a separate HTTP request, aka "HTTP Request Smuggling."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.298 (98.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.298 · newest: 0.298 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apache Tomcat — versions 4.1.24, 5.0.19
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200703e… (Third Party Advisory)
- tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30908 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732 (Permissions Required, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/13873 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3087 (Permissions Required, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/30899 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29242 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2005-2090?
- CVE-2005-2090 is a vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Published 2005-07-05.
- Is CVE-2005-2090 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.