01 Record
CVE-2008-4308
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.17% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-02-26 23:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-09-29
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4c4f11355cd39e258db248f88ce9ac45f154ffec711338990c840941ca831334
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- jvn.jpJVN#66905322http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-0541http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0541
- jvndb.jvn.jpJVNDB-2009-000010http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html
- issues.apache.orghttps://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40771
- secunia.com34057http://secunia.com/advisories/34057
- www.securityfocus.com20090225 [SECURITY] CVE-2008-4308: Tomcat information disclosure vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501250
- www.securityfocus.com33913http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33913
- lists.apache.org[tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [21/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [19/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [24/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E