CVE-2013-4286: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 16.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.47, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC3, when an HTTP connector or AJP connector is used, does not properly handle certain inconsistent HTTP request headers, which allows remote attackers to trigger incorrect identification of a request's length and conduct request-smuggling attacks via (1) multiple Content-Length headers or (2) a Content-Length header and a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-2090.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; version 7.0.10 only; …

Published 2014-02-26. Last modified 2026-10-09.