LOW
tomcat information disclosure vulnerability
Published Feb 26, 2009
2.6
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.91%
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.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- 4.1.32
- 4.1.33
- 4.1.34
- 5.5.10
- 5.5.11
- 5.5.12
- 5.5.13
- 5.5.14
- 5.5.15
- 5.5.16
- 5.5.17
- 5.5.18
- 5.5.19
- 5.5.20
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
2.6 LOW NVD
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
3.91% 0.03914
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.03914
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 3.91% (0.03914) | 89.98th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.91% (0.03914) | 88.91th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 7.58% (0.07583) | 91.01th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 9.21% (0.09212) | 87.72th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 7.58% (0.07583) | 91.21th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.11% (0.00111) | 46.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 27, 2023 | 0.11% (0.00112) | 43.71th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.08% (0.00079) | 32.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.03% (0.03032) | 83.64th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.03% (0.03032) | 81.96th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.03% (0.03032) | 64.44th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (21)
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34057 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501250 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33913 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0541 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENPatch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4308 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488040 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7g59-hm8v-cwmc Advisory
- https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40771 x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4308
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090228052951/http://secunia.com/advisories/34057
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111229174634/http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501250
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201207165808/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33913
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4308
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Feb 26, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 29, 2008
Link CVE-2008-4308
CISA Vulnrichment
GHSA-7G59-HM8V-CWMC Updated n/a