CVE-2005-2090

What it is

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."

At a glance

Exploitability

Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.

Exploit odds

26.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS). Higher than most.

Fix

A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.

Timeline

1. 2005-07-05 04:00 UTC PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
2. 2026-06-16 22:14 UTC Last updatedMost recent change to the record

Why it ranks here

• Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
• Exploit odds: 26.1% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
• Severity: 4.3 MEDIUM (CVSS).
• Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.

Details

Published

2005-07-05 04:00 UTC

Last modified

2026-06-16 22:14 UTC

Exploit probability

26.1% · EPSS, next 30 days

Record status

Modified

Affected

• Apache Tomcat 4.1.24
• Apache Tomcat 5.0.19

Attack profile CVSS 2.0 · 4.3

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

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