Bug 1806835 (CVE-2020-1935) - CVE-2020-1935 tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling
Summary: CVE-2020-1935 tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2020-1935
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1814315 1814316 1930276 1930277
Blocks: 1806837 1946546
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Reported: 2020-02-25 06:33 UTC by Ted Jongseok Won
Modified: 2024-03-25 15:42 UTC (History)
86 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tomcat 9.0.31, tomcat 8.5.51, tomcat 7.0.100
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A flaw was found in Apache Tomcat. The HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line (EOL) parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to the possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. The highest threat with this vulnerability is system availability.
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Last Closed: 2020-04-21 16:31:48 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1520 0 None None None 2020-04-21 11:06:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1521 0 None None None 2020-04-21 10:56:07 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2367 0 None None None 2020-06-04 13:11:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3303 0 None None None 2020-08-04 11:14:04 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3305 0 None None None 2020-08-04 11:17:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5020 0 None None None 2020-11-10 13:04:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0882 0 None None None 2021-03-16 14:55:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3140 0 None None None 2021-08-11 18:22:56 UTC

Description Ted Jongseok Won 2020-02-25 06:33:03 UTC 
The HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line (EOL) parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a reverse proxy is considered unlikely.

It affects the version of Apache Tomcat 9 from 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, Tomcat from 8 8.5.0 to 8.5.50, and Tomcat 7 7.0.0 to 7.0.99.

Upstream Patches:
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/8bfb0ff / tomcat9
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/8fbe2e9 / tomcat8
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/702bf15 / tomcat7
Comment 1 Ted Jongseok Won 2020-02-25 06:33:10 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: @ZeddYu (Apache Tomcat Security Team)
Comment 2 Ted Jongseok Won 2020-02-25 06:33:14 UTC 
External References:

https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.100
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_8.5.51
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_9.0.31
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-21 10:56:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server

Via RHSA-2020:1521 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1521
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-21 11:06:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 on RHEL 7
  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 on RHEL 6
  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.3 on RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2020:1520 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1520
Comment 14 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-21 16:31:48 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-1935
Comment 15 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-04-30 14:47:31 UTC 
Statement:

OpenDaylight in Red Hat OpenStack 10 & 13 was in technical preview status, because of this no fixes will be released for it.

In Red Hat Satellite 6, Candlepin is using Tomcat to provide a REST API, and has been found to be vulnerable to the flaw. However, it is currently believed that no useful attacks can be carried over.
Comment 22 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-06-02 10:53:06 UTC 
Mitigation:

Workaround for Red Hat Satellite 6 is to add iptables rule to deny TCP requests of Tomcat that are not originating from the Satellite.

For other Red Hat products, either mitigation isn't available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2020-06-04 13:11:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Runtimes Spring Boot 2.1.13

Via RHSA-2020:2367 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2367
Comment 25 errata-xmlrpc 2020-08-04 11:13:57 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7
  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2020:3303 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3303
Comment 26 errata-xmlrpc 2020-08-04 11:17:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server

Via RHSA-2020:3305 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3305
Comment 33 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-10 13:04:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:5020 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5020
Comment 36 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-16 14:55:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:0882 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0882
Comment 37 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-30 09:29:03 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:1030 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1030
Comment 38 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-11 18:22:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Fuse 7.9

Via RHSA-2021:3140 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3140
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