Apache Tomcat treats single quotes as delimiters in cookies

Description

Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.13, 5.5.0 to 5.5.24, 5.0.0 to 5.0.30, 4.1.0 to 4.1.36, and 3.3 to 3.3.2 treats single quotes (') as delimiters in cookies, which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked and allow remote attackers to conduct session hijacking attacks.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
Advisory on GitHub
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Repository advisory
Source code
Not specified
Published (advisory)
2022-05-01 18:13:14 UTC
Updated
2023-09-22 21:05:32 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2023-09-22 21:05:30 UTC
NVD published
2007-08-14

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
83.91% 99.29%

CVSS Scores

No CVSS scores in this advisory.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected packages (5)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 6.0.0, <= 6.0.13
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.24
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.30
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 4.1.0, <= 4.1.36
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat >= 3.3.0, <= 3.3.2

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence