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…
Severity
Medium 4.8
Published
24 Feb 2020
Last changed
8 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Sources
NVD
Affected software
Software
Affected versions
Apache TomcatServers and applications · cpe:a:apache:tomcat