Access Restriction Bypass Affecting tomcat7 package, versions <7.0.28-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-TOMCAT7-364008
  • published19 Dec 2012
  • disclosed19 Dec 2012

Introduced: 19 Dec 2012

CVE-2012-4431  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tomcat7 to version 7.0.28-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat7 package and not the tomcat7 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

org/apache/catalina/filters/CsrfPreventionFilter.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.32 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism via a request that lacks a session identifier.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1