CVE-2005-2090: apache tomcat
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2005-2090 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in apache tomcat. EPSS estimates a 26.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 4.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 9Timeline
- 30-06-2005PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.19 (Coyote/1.1) and Tomcat 4.1.24 (Coyote/1.0) allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header, which causes Tomcat to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that causes the receiving server to process it as a separate HTTP request, aka "HTTP Request Smuggling."
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
26.11%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
98%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Decrease -3.67 pp
From 29.78% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (securiteam.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Apache1 product
- tomcatEOL4.1.24 | 5.0.19
Org.apache.tomcat1 product
- tomcat≥ 5.0.0, ≤ 5.0.19 | ≥ 4.0.0, ≤ 4.1.24
2 vendors · 2 products
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