Improper Authentication Affecting tomcat9 package, versions <9.0.43-2~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TOMCAT9-1316675
  • published 13 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 12 Jul 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 tomcat9 to version 9.0.43-2~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9 package and not the tomcat9 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability in the JNDI Realm of Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to authenticate using variations of a valid user name and/or to bypass some of the protection provided by the LockOut Realm. This issue affects Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.5; 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.45; 8.5.0 to 8.5.65.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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SUSE

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

6.5 medium