Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

CVE-2014-0227

java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.42, 7.x before 7.0.55, and 8.x before 8.0.9 does not properly handle attempts to continue reading data after an error has occurred, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by streaming data with malformed chunked transfer coding.

EPSS: 0.210 (97.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Apache Tomcat — versions 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References