Open Redirect Affecting tomcat7-lib package, versions <0:7.0.91-1.34.amzn1

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Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-TOMCAT7LIB-1716589
published27 Sept 2021
disclosed4 Oct 2018

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Introduced: 4 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-11784 (opens in a new tab) CWE-601 (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 tomcat7-lib to version 0:7.0.91-1.34.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2018-1099.

NVD Description

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

When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.11, 8.5.0 to 8.5.33 and 7.0.23 to 7.0.90 returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.