CVE-2014-0227

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 21.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-16 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.42, 7.x before 7.0.55, and 8.x before 8.0.9 does not properly handle attempts to continue reading data after an error has occurred, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by streaming data with malformed chunked transfer coding.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 6.0.0, 6.0.0-alpha, 6.0.1, 6.0.1-alpha, 6.0.2, 6.0.2-alpha (+104)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0081.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2015-02/0067.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150282.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143393515412274&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0983.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0991.html
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1600984
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

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