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medium 4.3

CVE-2007-3382 json

Apache Tomcat treats single quotes as delimiters in cookies

published 2007-08-14 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-qff8-g48j-pwpw , EUVD-2022-4959

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
37.5%
EPSS 37.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.13, 5.5.0 to 5.5.24, 5.0.0 to 5.0.30, 4.1.0 to 4.1.36, and 3.3 to 3.3.2 treats single quotes ("'") as delimiters in cookies, which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked and allow remote attackers to conduct session hijacking attacks.

Patch / fix

  • ant certificate system 7.3 1.6.5-1jpp_1rh
  • axis certificate system 7.3 1.2.1-1jpp_3rh
  • mx4j certificate system 7.3 1:3.0.1-1jpp_4rh
  • log4j certificate system 7.3 1.2.12-1jpp_1rh
  • tomcat5 certificate system 7.3 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
  • rhpki-ca certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-20.el4
  • pcsc-lite certificate system 7.3 1.3.3-3.el4
  • rhpki-kra certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-14.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0602RHSA-2008:0524RHSA-2008:0261RHSA-2008:0195RHSA-2007:1069RHSA-2007:0950

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-3382 updated

tomcat handling of cookies

  • Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS tomcat5 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-jasper 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-webapps 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-common-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-server-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, +5 more Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES tomcat5 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-jasper 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-webapps 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-common-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-server-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, +5 more Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS tomcat5 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-jasper 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-webapps 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-common-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-server-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.4, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0876
  • Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4) jacorb 2.3.0-1jpp.ep1.1, jboss-seam 1.2.1-1.ep1.2, jbossas 4.2.0-2.CP01.ep1.4, jcommon 0.9.7-1jpp.el4ep1.1, berkeleydb 2.0.90-1jpp.ep1.1, jboss-aop 1.5.5-0jpp.ep1.2.1, +12 more Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4) jacorb 2.3.0-1jpp.ep1.1, jboss-seam 1.2.1-1.ep1.2, jbossas 4.2.0-2.CP01.ep1.4, jcommon 0.9.7-1jpp.el4ep1.1, berkeleydb 2.0.90-1jpp.ep1.1, jboss-aop 1.5.5-0jpp.ep1.2.1, +12 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0950
  • Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 for 4AS ant 1.6.5-1jpp_1rh, axis 1.2.1-1jpp_3rh, mx4j 3.0.1-1jpp_4rh, log4j 1.2.12-1jpp_1rh, pcsc-lite 1.3.3-3.el4, rhpki-ca 7.3.0-20.el4, +31 more Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 for 4ES ant 1.6.5-1jpp_1rh, axis 1.2.1-1jpp_3rh, mx4j 3.0.1-1jpp_4rh, log4j 1.2.12-1jpp_1rh, pcsc-lite 1.3.3-3.el4, rhpki-ca 7.3.0-20.el4, +31 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0602
  • Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4) tomcat5 5.5.23-0jpp_11rh, tomcat5-jasper 5.5.23-0jpp_11rh, tomcat5-common-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_11rh, tomcat5-server-lib 5.5.23-0jpp_11rh, tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 5.5.23-0jpp_11rh, tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api 5.5.23-0jpp_11rh
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0195
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) tomcat5 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-jasper 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-webapps 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-common-lib 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-server-lib 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) tomcat5 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-jasper 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-webapps 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-common-lib 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-server-lib 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) tomcat5 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-jasper 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-webapps 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-common-lib 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-server-lib 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0871
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.0 (RHEL v.4 AS) tyrex 1.0.1-2jpp_2rh, jabberd 2.0s10-3.38.rhn, jfreechart 0.9.20-3.rhn, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_6rh, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh, perl-Crypt-CBC 2.24-1.el4, +7 more Red Hat Satellite v 4.0 (RHEL v.3 AS) tyrex 1.0.1-2jpp_2rh, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_6rh, jakarta-commons-pool 1.2-2jpp_2rh Red Hat Satellite v 4.0 (RHEL v.4 AS) tyrex 1.0.1-2jpp_2rh, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_6rh, jakarta-commons-pool 1.2-2jpp_2rh Red Hat Satellite v 4.1 (RHEL v.3 AS) tyrex 1.0.1-2jpp_2rh, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_6rh, jakarta-commons-pool 1.2-2jpp_2rh Red Hat Satellite v 4.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) tyrex 1.0.1-2jpp_2rh, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_6rh, jakarta-commons-pool 1.2-2jpp_2rh Red Hat Satellite v 4.2 (RHEL v.3 AS) tyrex 1.0.1-2jpp_2rh, jabberd 2.0s10-3.37.rhn, jfreechart 0.9.20-3.rhn, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_6rh, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh, perl-Crypt-CBC 2.24-1.el3, +7 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Satellite v 4.2 (RHEL v.4 AS) tyrex 1.0.1-2jpp_2rh, jabberd 2.0s10-3.38.rhn, jfreechart 0.9.20-3.rhn, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_6rh, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh, perl-Crypt-CBC 2.24-1.el4, +7 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:1069
  • Red Hat Application Stack v2 for Enterprise Linux (v.5) bsh2 2.0-0.b4.1jpp.ep1.1.el5, jboss-seam 1.2.1-1.ep1.2.el5, jcommon 0.9.7-1jpp.ep1.1.el5, jbossas 4.2.0-2.CP01.ep1.3.el5, berkeleydb 2.0.90-1jpp.ep1.1.el5, jfreechart 0.9.21-2jpp.ep1.1.el5.2, +11 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-30496)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

37.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-30496 Apache Tomcat 6.0.13 - Insecure Cookie Handling Quote Delimiter Session ID Disclosure remote, 2007-08-14

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
>=6.0.0, <=6.0.13
>=5.5.0, <=5.5.24
>=5.0.0, <=5.0.30
>=4.1.0, <=4.1.36
>=3.3.0, <=3.3.2
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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