CVE-2014-0075

CVE-2014-0075 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in Apache Tomcat versions before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4. This flaw, located in the parseChunkHeader function, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending a malformed chunk size in a chunked HTTP request, leading to excessive resource consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity vulnerability, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and requires no authentication, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.