CVE-2007-6286

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Apache Tomcat 5.5.11 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15, when the native APR connector is used, does not properly handle an empty request to the SSL port, which allows remote attackers to trigger handling of "a duplicate copy of one of the recent requests," as demonstrated by using netcat to send the empty request.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 5.5.11, 5.5.12, 5.5.13, 5.5.14, 5.5.15, 5.5.16 (+25)

References

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/28915
http://secunia.com/advisories/29711
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
http://secunia.com/advisories/37460
http://secunia.com/advisories/57126
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-10.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3637

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