CVE•Published 2020-02-24•Modified 2026-10-08•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2020-1935Apache · Tomcat

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 5% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-444Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

Description

In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99 the HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a reverse proxy is considered unlikely.

Timeline

Published 2020-02-24

Modified 2026-10-08

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag40 hosts

vuln:CVE-2020-1935

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · product

product:"Apache Tomcat"

All exposed Apache Tomcat instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Tomcat"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Tomcat" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2020-1935