Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-42252

High

Published: 01 November 2022

Published
01 November 2022
Modified
06 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0029 52.8th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-42252 is a high-severity HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CWE-444) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing…

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an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apache
tomcat
8.5.0 — 8.5.83 · 9.0.0 — 9.0.68 · 10.0.0 — 10.0.27

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References