National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2090

Overview

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."

Impact

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090127 CA20090123-01: Cohesion Tomcat Multiple Vulnerabilities (Updated - v1.1)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090124 CA20090123-01: Cohesion Tomcat Multiple Vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html

Hyperlink:http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0233

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2009/0233

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540

Hyperlink:http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33668

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33668

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20050606 A new whitepaper by Watchfire - HTTP Request Smuggling

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx

Hyperlink:http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx

External Source: BID

Name: 25159

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159

External Source: BID

Name: 13873

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13873

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080108 VMSA-2008-0002 Low severity security update for VirtualCenter and ESX Server 3.0.2, and ESX 3.0.1

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0261

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0360

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0327

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0327.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200703e.html

Hyperlink:http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200703e.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1979

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1979/references

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0065

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0065

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3386

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3386

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3087

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3087

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2732

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2732

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 239312

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1014365

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1014365

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30908

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30908

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30899

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30899

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29242

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29242

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28365

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28365

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27037

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27037

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26660

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26660

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26235

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26235

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Security-announce] 20080107 VMSA-2008-0002 Low severity security update for VirtualCenter and ESX Server 3.0.2, and ESX 3.0.1

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2008:005

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-07-31

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBUX02262

Hyperlink:http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172