GHSA-cww4-vj5r-rx57 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Exposure of Sensitive Information in Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 through 6.0.14, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 4.1.0 through 4.1.36 does not properly handle (1) double quote (") characters or (2) %5C (encoded backslash) sequences in a cookie value, which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked to remote attackers and enable session hijacking attacks. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3385.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-5333 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 81.60%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31130 | exploit_db | edb | 2008-02-09 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-03-04 | 83.04% | 81.60% | -1.44% |
| 2 | 2026-03-01 | 81.60% | 83.04% | +1.44% |
| 3 | 2026-02-04 | — | 81.60% | — |
Full EPSS history (42 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-cww4-vj5r-rx57 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Exposure of Sensitive Information in Apache Tomcat
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
gentoo
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normal | CVE-2007-5333: 1 GLSA(s) (200804-10), 1 atom(s) (www-servers/tomcat); latest impact normal. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2007-5333 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5333 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2007-5333 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (tomcat5, tomcat5.5), 26 status rows across 13 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): DNE 15, ignored 7, not-affected 2, needs-triage 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-5333 |
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5333 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.