CVE-2007-5333: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 62.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: from 4.1.0, up to and including 4.1.36; from 5.5.0, up to and including 5.5.25; from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.0.14

Published 2008-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.