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Improper Input Validation Affecting tomcat7-docs-webapp package, versions <0:7.0.69-1.17.amzn1

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
96.33% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-TOMCAT7DOCSWEBAPP-1698751
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed19 Jul 2016
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Introduced: 19 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5388  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 tomcat7-docs-webapp to version 0:7.0.69-1.17.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2016-722.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat7-docs-webapp package and not the tomcat7-docs-webapp package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

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