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GHSA-qxf4-chvg-4r8r

Potential HTTP request smuggling in Apache Tomcat

Quick fix

GHSA-qxf4-chvg-4r8r — org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

# pom.xml: bump <version>7.0.100</version> for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core

Details

In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99 the HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a reverse proxy is considered unlikely.

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Affected packages

Maven / org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 7.0.100
Fix # pom.xml: bump <version>7.0.100</version> for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Maven / org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Introduced in: 8.0.0 Fixed in: 8.5.51
Fix # pom.xml: bump <version>8.5.51</version> for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Maven / org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Introduced in: 9.0.0 Fixed in: 9.0.31
Fix # pom.xml: bump <version>9.0.31</version> for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
Maven / org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 7.0.100
Fix # pom.xml: bump <version>7.0.100</version> for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Maven / org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Introduced in: 8.0.0 Fixed in: 8.5.51
Fix # pom.xml: bump <version>8.5.51</version> for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Maven / org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Introduced in: 9.0.0 Fixed in: 9.0.31
Fix # pom.xml: bump <version>9.0.31</version> for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat

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