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CVE-2008-4308

Status: ModifiedLow (2.6)—

The doRead method in Apache Tomcat 4.1.32 through 4.1.34 and 5.5.10 through 5.5.20 does not return a -1 to indicate when a certain error condition has occurred, which can cause Tomcat to send POST content from one request to a different request.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Apache — Tomcat

CWEs

References

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