CVE-2022-42252

Public on 2022-11-01
Modified on 2023-05-05
Description
If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat8.5 Extra tomcat 2023-08-21 ALAS2TOMCAT8.5-2023-002 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat9 Extra tomcat 2023-08-21 ALAS2TOMCAT9-2023-002 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat9 Extra tomcat 2023-08-21 ALAS2TOMCAT9-2023-005 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 tomcat9 2023-03-20 ALAS2023-2023-140 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N