# CVE-2005-2090: 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 fi

- Also known as: GHSA-F2GQ-P6QV-CCW4
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2005-06-30 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (Maven): from 5.0.0, through 5.0.19
- org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (Maven): from 4.0.0, through 4.1.24

## 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."

## What to do

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## References

- http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200703e.html
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30908
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13873
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3087
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30899
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29242
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1979/references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0065
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33668
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0233
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10499
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28365
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3386

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