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CVE-2005-2090

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2005-07-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.19 (Coyote/1.1) and Tomcat 4.1.24 (Coyote/1.0) allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header, which causes Tomcat to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that causes the receiving server to process it as a separate HTTP request, aka "HTTP Request Smuggling."

Affected Platforms

Apache Tomcat

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References