// For flags

CVE-2005-2090

tomcat multiple content-length header poisioning

Severity Score

4.3
*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

1
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

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."

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2005-06-30 CVE Reserved
  • 2005-06-30 CVE Published
  • 2023-11-08 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-08-07 CVE Updated
  • 2024-08-07 First Exploit
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
CAPEC
References (37)
URL Tag Source
http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx Broken Link
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172 Broken Link
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html Mailing List
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html Mailing List
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014365 Third Party Advisory
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm Third Party Advisory
http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540 Broken Link
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200703e.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13873 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159 Third Party Advisory
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E Mailing List
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10499 Signature
URL Date SRC
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html 2024-08-07
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795 2023-11-07
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html 2023-11-07
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html 2023-11-07
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1 2023-11-07
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html 2023-11-07
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html 2023-11-07
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html 2023-11-07
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0327.html 2023-11-07
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html 2023-11-07
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-2090 2010-08-04
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237079 2010-08-04
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Apache
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 Tomcat
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 4.1.24
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Affected
Apache
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 Tomcat
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 5.0.19
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Affected