CVE-2005-2090

medium

Description

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."

References

Advisories
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10499

http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13873

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0327.html

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200703e.html

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm

http://securitytracker.com/id?1014365

http://secunia.com/advisories/33668

http://secunia.com/advisories/30908

http://secunia.com/advisories/30899

http://secunia.com/advisories/29242

http://secunia.com/advisories/28365

http://secunia.com/advisories/27037

http://secunia.com/advisories/26660

http://secunia.com/advisories/26235

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0233

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1979/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0065

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3386

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3087

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-07-05

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.85218