CVE-2008-4308
LOW · CVSS 2.6EPSS 4.2%EU EUVD
The doRead method in Apache Tomcat 4.1.32 through 4.1.34 and 5.5.10 through 5.5.20 does not return a -1 to indicate when a certain error condition has occurred, which can cause Tomcat to send POST content from one request to a different request.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 4.2% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-2992)
- Published
- February 26, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-2992 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34057(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501250
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33913
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0541(Patch)
- https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40771(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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