Description
The JK Connector (aka mod_jk) 1.2.0 through 1.2.26 in Apache Tomcat allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an arbitrary request from an HTTP client, in opportunistic circumstances involving (1) a request from a different client that included a Content-Length header but no POST data or (2) a rapid series of requests, related to noncompliance with the AJP protocol's requirements for requests containing Content-Length headers.
Published: 2009-04-09
Score: 2.6 Low
EPSS: 4.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1810-1 New libapache-mod-jk packages fix information disclosure
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-5494 The JK Connector (aka mod_jk) 1.2.0 through 1.2.26 in Apache Tomcat allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an arbitrary request from an HTTP client, in opportunistic circumstances involving (1) a request from a different client that included a Content-Length header but no POST data or (2) a rapid series of requests, related to noncompliance with the AJP protocol's requirements for requests containing Content-Length headers.
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/200904.mbox/%3C49DBBAC0.2080400%40apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=123913700700879 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29283 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34621 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35537 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022001 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-262468-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/native/common/jk_ajp_common.c?r1=702387&r2=702540&pathrev=702540&diff_format=h cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml?view=markup&pathrev=702540 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=702540 cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-jk.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1810 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/08/10 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0446.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502530/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34412 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0973 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490201 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/277d42b48b6e9aef50949c0dcc79ce21693091d73da246b3c1981925%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b7a23e245c93235c503900da854a143596d901bf1a1f67e851a5de4%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d2a579bbd977c225c70cb23b0ec54865fb0dab5da3eff1e060c9935%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ba661b0edd913b39ff129a32d855620dd861883ade05fd88a8ce517d%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5c616dfc49156e4b06ffab842800c80f4425924d0f20c452c127a53c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf8e8c091182b45daa50d3557cad9b10bb4198e3f08cf8f1c66a1b08d%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5519 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5519 cve-icon
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Apache Mod Jk Tomcat
Redhat Network Satellite Rhel Application Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:56:46.621Z

Reserved: 2008-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-5519

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-04-09T15:08:35.500

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-5519

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-10-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5519 - Bugzilla

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