CVE-2008-5519

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The JK Connector (aka mod_jk) 1.2.0 through 1.2.26 in Apache Tomcat allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an arbitrary request from an HTTP client, in opportunistic circumstances involving (1) a request from a different client that included a Content-Length header but no POST data or (2) a rapid series of requests, related to noncompliance with the AJP protocol's requirements for requests containing Content-Length headers.

Affected products

Apache Mod Jk: 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.2.8, 1.2.9 (+18)
Apache Tomcat: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+98)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/200904.mbox/%3C49DBBAC0.2080400%40apache.org%3E
http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=123913700700879
http://secunia.com/advisories/29283
http://secunia.com/advisories/34621
http://secunia.com/advisories/35537
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022001
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-262468-1
http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/native/common/jk_ajp_common.c?r1=702387&r2=702540&pathrev=702540&diff_format=h
http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml?view=markup&pathrev=702540
http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=702540
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

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