CVE-2007-5333

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 62.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 through 6.0.14, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 4.1.0 through 4.1.36 does not properly handle (1) double quote (") characters or (2) %5C (encoded backslash) sequences in a cookie value, which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked to remote attackers and enable session hijacking attacks. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3385.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: from 4.1.0 through 4.1.36; from 5.5.0 through 5.5.25; from 6.0.0 through 6.0.14

References

http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2309470767/index.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/28878
http://secunia.com/advisories/28884
http://secunia.com/advisories/28915
http://secunia.com/advisories/29711
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676
http://secunia.com/advisories/30802
http://secunia.com/advisories/32036

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