CVE-2005-2090

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
82.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: July 5, 2005 (7618 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

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."

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

apache tomcat

References

🔗 community.ca.com 🔗 docs.info.apple.com 🔗 h20000.www2.hp.com 🔗 lists.apple.com 🔗 lists.opensuse.org