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SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core, org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-qxf4-chvg-4r8r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423506

Description

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

 - In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99 the HTTP header parsing code used
 an approach to end-of-line parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led
 to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly
 handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a reverse proxy is considered
 unlikely. (CVE-2020-1935)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qxf4-chvg-4r8r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423506

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1935

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1935

cwe: CWE-444