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CVE-2008-4308

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: 4.1.32, 4.1.33, 4.1.34, 5.5.10, 5.5.11, 5.5.12 (+8)

References

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34057
• 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%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html

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