CVE-2008-4308 Apache Tomcat information disclosure vulnerability

What is CVE-2008-4308?

CVE-2008-4308 is a low-severity vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 26 Feb 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4308?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.tomcat:tomcat. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Tomcat.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4308?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat to a fixed version for your release line: 4.1.35 or 5.5.21.

Is CVE-2008-4308 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4308 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7g59-hm8v-cwmc.