CVE-2005-2090
Tomcat Vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning
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."
How to fix CVE-2005-2090
No fixed version has been published yet. Mitigate by removing the affected package or applying upstream guidance from the references below.
- —no fix listed
Is CVE-2005-2090 being exploited?
Likely — EPSS is 71.4%, placing CVE-2005-2090 in the top tier of vulnerabilities by exploitation probability. Prioritise patching.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.19