| Name | CVE-2022-42252 |
| Description | If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3384-1, DSA-5381-1, ELA-735-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| tomcat7 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 7.0.56-3+really7.0.109-1+deb8u6 | fixed |
| stretch | 7.0.75-1 | vulnerable | |
| tomcat8 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 8.0.14-1+deb8u28 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 8.5.54-0+deb9u8 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 8.5.54-0+deb9u15 | fixed | |
| tomcat9 (PTS) | buster | 9.0.31-1~deb10u6 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 9.0.31-1~deb10u12 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 9.0.43-2~deb11u9 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 9.0.43-2~deb11u10 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 9.0.70-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tomcat7 | source | jessie | 7.0.56-3+really7.0.109-1+deb8u1 | ELA-735-1 | ||
| tomcat7 | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| tomcat7 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| tomcat8 | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
| tomcat8 | source | stretch | 8.5.54-0+deb9u9 | |||
| tomcat8 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| tomcat9 | source | buster | 9.0.31-1~deb10u8 | DLA-3384-1 | ||
| tomcat9 | source | bullseye | 9.0.43-2~deb11u6 | DSA-5381-1 | ||
| tomcat9 | source | (unstable) | 9.0.68-1 |
https://lists.apache.org/thread/zzcxzvqfdqn515zfs3dxb7n8gty589sq
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/4c7f4fd09d2cc1692112ef70b8ee23a7a037ae77 (9.0.68)
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/a1c07906d8dcaf7957e5cc97f5cdbac7d18a205a (8.5.83)
[jessie] - tomcat8 <not-affected> (rejectIllegalHeader setting was introduced later)