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medium 5.0

CVE-2014-0095 json

Denial of service in Apache Tomcat

published 2014-05-31 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-wf5v-jhxj-q632 , EUVD-2022-5560

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.5%
EPSS 8.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

java/org/apache/coyote/ajp/AbstractAjpProcessor.java in Apache Tomcat 8.x before 8.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread consumption) by using a "Content-Length: 0" AJP request to trigger a hang in request processing.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote 8.0.4
  • maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core 8.0.4

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-2014-0095 updated cvss 5.0

8: Denial of service via AJP requests with content length zero

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tomcat5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-jsvc, tomcat-javadoc, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-2.2-api, +4 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 tomcat6, tomcat5 tomcat5 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat7 tomcat7, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

8.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote
>=8.0.0-RC1, <8.0.4
8.0.4
maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
>=8.0.0-RC1, <8.0.4
8.0.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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