Information Exposure Affecting tomcat7 package, versions <7.0.56-3+really7.0.88-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
86.09% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-TOMCAT7-364055
  • published19 Sept 2017
  • disclosed19 Sept 2017

Introduced: 19 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tomcat7 to version 7.0.56-3+really7.0.88-1 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.

When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.

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