ubuntu-cve-2013-4286
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2014-02-26 00:00
Modified
2025-07-16 04:50
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
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            "binary_name": "libservlet2.4-java",
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          },
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          },
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      },
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      },
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      ],
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        "7.0.42-1",
        "7.0.47-1",
        "7.0.50-1"
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    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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\u0027s 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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4286",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:18Z",
  "published": "2014-02-26T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4286"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2130-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4286"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-2130-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2013-4286"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:42:54Z"
}



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