CVE-2014-0227: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.42, 7.x before 7.0.55, and 8.x before 8.0.9 does not properly handle attempts to continue reading data after an error has occurred, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by streaming data with malformed chunked transfer coding.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.3 only; version 6.0.4 only; version 6.0.5 only; …

Published 2015-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.