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CVE-2005-2090: Improper Neutralization

May 1, 2022 (updated September 18, 2023)

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

  • community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx
  • docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
  • lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
  • lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html
  • lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html
  • seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html
  • securitytracker.com/id?1014365
  • sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1
  • support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm
  • support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540
  • tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
  • tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
  • tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
  • www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200703e.html
  • www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0327.html
  • www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html
  • www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
  • www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html
  • www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded
  • www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded
  • www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded
  • www.securityfocus.com/bid/13873
  • www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2gq-p6qv-ccw4
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2090
  • oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10499

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.0.0 up to 4.1.24, all versions starting from 5.0.0 up to 5.0.19

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 4.3 MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Learn more about CVSS

Weakness

  • CWE-707: Improper Neutralization

Source file

maven/org.apache.tomcat/tomcat/CVE-2005-2090.yml

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