Vulnerability CVE-2008-4308
Published: 2009-02-26   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The doRead method in Apache Tomcat 4.1.32 through 4.1.34 and 5.5.10 through 5.5.20 does not return a -1 to indicate when a certain error condition has occurred, which can cause Tomcat to send POST content from one request to a different request.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Tomcat information disclosure vulnerability
Mark Thomas
01.03.2009

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Apache -> Tomcat 

 References:
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501250
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33913
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0541
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40771
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
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