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SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-42j3-498q-m6vp)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409817

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2014-0227)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-42j3-498q-m6vp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409817

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0227

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0227

BID: 72717

cwe: CWE-20