CVE-2013-4286 is an HTTP request-smuggling vulnerability in Apache Tomcat and affected JBoss Web deployments. When an HTTP or AJP connector processes inconsistent HTTP request framing headers, it can incorrectly determine the request length. Ambiguous requests containing multiple Content-Length headers or both a Content-Length header and Transfer-Encoding: chunked can cause a parsing discrepancy and permit request smuggling. The flaw is an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-2090. Affected upstream versions are Tomcat releases before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.47, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC3.
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An Apache Tomcat HTTP request-smuggling vulnerability caused by an incomplete fix for malicious-request handling. Crafted requests combining Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Length headers can enable web-cache poisoning, WAF bypass, and XSS attacks.
An Apache Tomcat HTTP request-smuggling vulnerability caused by improper handling of inconsistent HTTP request headers, allowing a remote attacker to cause incorrect request-length interpretation through conflicting Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding headers.
JBossWeb/Tomcat multiple Content-Length header poisoning flaws.
An HTTP request-handling flaw in JBoss Web that can enable web-cache poisoning, cross-site scripting, or disclosure of information from other requests through conflicting HTTP message-length headers.
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