CVE-2019-17569

unknown
Published 2020-02-28 · Modified 2024-02-21
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

The refactoring present in Apache Tomcat 9.0.28 to 9.0.30, 8.5.48 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.98 to 7.0.99 introduced a regression. The result of the regression was that invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were incorrectly processed leading 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 reverse proxy is considered unlikely.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17569

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed9.0.31-1
debian debianbullseyefixed9.0.31-1
debian debianforkyfixed9.0.31-1
debian debiansidfixed9.0.31-1
debian debiantrixiefixed9.0.31-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>=7.0.98,<7.0.1007.0.100
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>=8.5.48,<8.5.518.5.51
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>=9.0.28,<9.0.319.0.31
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=7.0.98,<7.0.1007.0.100
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=8.5.48,<8.5.518.5.51
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=9.0.28,<9.0.319.0.31

References

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