CVE-2008-3271: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 and 4.1.0 through 4.1.31 allows remote attackers to bypass an IP address restriction and obtain sensitive information via a request that is processed concurrently with another request but in a different thread, leading to an instance-variable overwrite associated with a "synchronization problem" and lack of thread safety, and related to RemoteFilterValve, RemoteAddrValve, and RemoteHostValve.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 4.1.5 only; …

Published 2008-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.