Access Restriction Bypass Affecting tomcat7-docs-webapp package, versions <0:7.0.72-1.21.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-TOMCAT7DOCSWEBAPP-1703482
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-0762  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 tomcat7-docs-webapp to version 0:7.0.72-1.21.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2016-764.

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.

The Realm implementations in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 did not process the supplied password if the supplied user name did not exist. This made a timing attack possible to determine valid user names. Note that the default configuration includes the LockOutRealm which makes exploitation of this vulnerability harder.

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