CVE-2013-4286
Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.47, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC3, when an HTTP connector or AJP connector is used, does not properly handle certain inconsistent HTTP request headers, which allows remote attackers to trigger incorrect identification of a request's length and conduct request-smuggling attacks via (1) multiple Content-Length headers or (2) a Content-Length header and a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-2090.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 16.2% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-4269)
- Published
- February 26, 2014
- NVD last modified
- October 9, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-4269 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on October 9, 2026.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / tomcat
- apache / tomcat
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References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0148.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141390017113542&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0343.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0344.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0345.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57675
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59036
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59675
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59722
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59724
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59733
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59873
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1521829
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1521854
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1552565
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21667883
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675886
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21677147
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530
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- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2015-2365600.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65773
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2130-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069921
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04851013
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
Last updated October 11, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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