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CVE-2013-4286

tomcat: multiple content-length header poisoning flaws

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 25, 2014

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

It was found that when Tomcat / JBoss Web processed a series of HTTP requests in which at least one request contained either multiple content-length headers, or one content-length header with a chunked transfer-encoding header, Tomcat / JBoss Web would incorrectly handle the request. A remote attacker could use this flaw to poison a web cache, perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, or obtain sensitive information from other requests.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified