Information Exposure Affecting tomcat7 package, versions <7.0.56-3+deb8u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-TOMCAT7-364109
  • published10 Aug 2017
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-6794  (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+deb8u5 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 a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. In Apache Tomcat 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, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.

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