CVE-2012-3544

medium
Published 2013-06-01 · Modified 2025-04-12
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Apache Tomcat Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Improper Handling of chunk extensions

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1476592

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378921

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378702

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java?r1=1476592&r2=1476591&pathrev=1476592

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3544.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=6.0.0,<6.0.376.0.37
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=7.0.0,<7.0.307.0.30

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachetomcat6.0
apache apachetomcat6.0.0
apache apachetomcat6.0.1
apache apachetomcat6.0.2
apache apachetomcat6.0.3
apache apachetomcat6.0.4
apache apachetomcat6.0.5
apache apachetomcat6.0.6
apache apachetomcat6.0.7
apache apachetomcat6.0.8
apache apachetomcat6.0.9
apache apachetomcat6.0.10
apache apachetomcat6.0.11
apache apachetomcat6.0.12
apache apachetomcat6.0.13
apache apachetomcat6.0.14
apache apachetomcat6.0.15
apache apachetomcat6.0.16
apache apachetomcat6.0.17
apache apachetomcat6.0.18
apache apachetomcat6.0.19
apache apachetomcat6.0.20
apache apachetomcat6.0.24
apache apachetomcat6.0.26
apache apachetomcat6.0.27
apache apachetomcat6.0.28
apache apachetomcat6.0.29
apache apachetomcat6.0.30
apache apachetomcat6.0.31
apache apachetomcat6.0.32
apache apachetomcat6.0.33
apache apachetomcat6.0.35
apache apachetomcat6.0.36
apache apachetomcat7.0.0
apache apachetomcat7.0.1
apache apachetomcat7.0.2
apache apachetomcat7.0.3
apache apachetomcat7.0.4
apache apachetomcat7.0.5
apache apachetomcat7.0.6
apache apachetomcat7.0.7
apache apachetomcat7.0.8
apache apachetomcat7.0.9
apache apachetomcat7.0.10
apache apachetomcat7.0.11
apache apachetomcat7.0.12
apache apachetomcat7.0.13
apache apachetomcat7.0.14
apache apachetomcat7.0.15
apache apachetomcat7.0.16
apache apachetomcat7.0.17
apache apachetomcat7.0.18
apache apachetomcat7.0.19
apache apachetomcat7.0.20
apache apachetomcat7.0.21
apache apachetomcat7.0.22
apache apachetomcat7.0.23
apache apachetomcat7.0.25
apache apachetomcat7.0.28

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.