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Security Bulletin: Open Source Apache Tomcat vulnerability (CVE-2014-0227)

Created by Ofra Shinitzky on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/530197
530197

Security Bulletin


Summary

Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-0227
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100751 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM InfoSphere Guardium Database Activity Monitoring

8.2 PSIRT 49484http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_8.2p6011_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
 
IBM InfoSphere Guardium Database Activity Monitoring9.xPSIRT 49484http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_9.0p6011_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM InfoSphere Guardium for Applications GFAPSIRT 49484http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p6011_SecurityUpdate_GFA&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21960521

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