Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat
CVE-2007-6286
Apache Tomcat 5.5.11 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15, when the native APR connector is used, does not properly handle an empty request to the SSL port, which allows remote attackers to trigger handling of "a duplicate copy of one of the recent requests," as demonstrated by using netcat to send the empty request.
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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: 0.054 (92.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.054 · newest: 0.054 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apache Tomcat — versions 5.5.11, 5.5.12, 5.5.13
References
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3637 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30676 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28915 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37460 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 (vdb-entry)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
- secunia.com/advisories/28878 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487823/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0488 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)