CVE-2007-5333
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 62.6%EU EUVD
Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 through 6.0.14, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 4.1.0 through 4.1.36 does not properly handle (1) double quote (") characters or (2) %5C (encoded backslash) sequences in a cookie value, which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked to remote attackers and enable session hijacking attacks. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3385.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 62.6% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-3654)
- Published
- February 12, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-3654 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / tomcat
References
- http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2309470767/index.html(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28878(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28884(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28915(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29711(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30676(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30802(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32036(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32222(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33330(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37460(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44183(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57126(Broken Link)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-10.xml(Broken Link)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3636(Broken Link)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216(Third Party Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24018932(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012047(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012048(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ20133(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ20991(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:018(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:176(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/4.2.0.cp08/html-single/Release_Notes/index.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487822/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27706(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0488(URL Repurposed)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856/references(URL Repurposed)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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