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    CVE-2014-0075

    Integer overflow in the parseChunkHeader function in java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a malformed chunk size in chunked transfer coding of a request during the streaming of data.

    Published:May 27, 2014
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:May 31, 2014
    EPSS Score:0.80198
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Tomcat
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Bpms
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Brms
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Data Grid
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Data Virtualization
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Web Server
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Fuse Service Works
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Operations Network

    Exploits

    https://github.com/LiviuPtr/CVE-2014-0075_PoC

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-147 XML Ping of the Death
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-227 Sustained Client Engagement
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    References

    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0268.html
    http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0865.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150282.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141390017113542&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59121
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59616
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59678
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59732
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59835
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59849
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59873
    http://secunia.com/advisories/60729
    http://secunia.com/advisories/60793
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1578337
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1578341
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1579262
    http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
    http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
    http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21678231
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21680603
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21681528
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3447
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:052
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:053
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:084
    http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010166
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67671
    http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html
    https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04851013
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0268.html
    http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0865.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150282.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141390017113542&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59121
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59616
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59678
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59732
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59835
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59849
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59873
    http://secunia.com/advisories/60729
    http://secunia.com/advisories/60793
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1578337
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1578341
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1579262
    http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
    http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
    http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21678231
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21680603
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21681528
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3447
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:052
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:053
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:084
    http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010166
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67671
    http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html
    https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04851013
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High