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CVE-2007-5333 Apache Tomcat

Affected softwareApache Tomcat
Severity5.0 Medium CVSS 2.0
Fixed in6.0.15, 5.5.26, 4.1.37
WeaknessInformation exposure (CWE-200)
Published12 Feb 2008
Updated16 Jun 2026

Description

Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 through 6.0.14, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 4.1.0 through 4.1.36 does not properly handle (1) double quote (") characters or (2) %5C (encoded backslash) sequences in a cookie value, which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked to remote attackers and enable session hijacking attacks. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3385.

Exploitation status

Working exploit published

A reviewed exploit catalogue lists ready-to-run exploit code for this CVE.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Exploit-DB; first seen 2008-02-09.
  • EPSS 63% chance in 30 days A model's forecast, not a report of exploitation. Higher than 99% of all scored CVEs.
IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
Exploit-DB Apache Tomcat 6.0.15 - Cookie Quote Handling Remote Information Disclosure 2008-02-09

Waratek protection

Mitigation candidate

A kind of vulnerability Waratek's rules address, with exploit code published or exploitation reported. No rule exists and none is planned yet. The decision below says what we found to build a rule from.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Inferred
  • Record active
Decided by A reference pointing at the upstream fix: a commit, a PR, a Red Hat bug
Finding A Red Hat Bugzilla ticket (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532111) tracks the fix. That makes this CVE a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: whether one can be derived depends on reading the upstream change the ticket links.
Candidate fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532111 : a Red Hat bug: the triage, which links onward to the fix

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 6.0.0 6.0.15 unbounded
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 5.5.0 5.5.26 unbounded
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 4.1.0 4.1.37 unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 6 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd apache tomcat generic ≥ 4.1.0 and ≤ 4.1.36 · ≥ 5.5.0 and ≤ 5.5.25 · ≥ 6.0.0 and ≤ 6.0.14
osv org.apache.tomcat tomcat generic ≥ 4.1.0 and < 4.1.37 · ≥ 5.5.0 and < 5.5.26 · ≥ 6.0.0 and < 6.0.15

References

URLTags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532111 bugzilla
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00460.html WEB
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00315.html WEB
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11177 WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r584a714f141eff7b1c358d4679288177bd4ca4558e9999d15867d4b5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r584a714f141eff7b1c358d4679288177bd4ca4558e9999d15867d4b5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3aacc40356defc3f248aa504b1e48e819dd0471a0a83349080c6bcbf@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3aacc40356defc3f248aa504b1e48e819dd0471a0a83349080c6bcbf%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E WEB

Timeline

Published2008-02-12By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-16NVD's own last-modified date for this record.