Insufficient Hostname Verification Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-websocket package, versions [8.0.0-RC1,8.0.53)[8.5.0,8.5.32)[9.0.0.M1,9.0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-1023362
  • published24 Jul 2018
  • disclosed22 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-8034  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat.websocket to versions 7.0.90, 8.0.53,8.5.32, 9.0.10 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat.websocket is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Hostname Verification. It did not verify if the hostname in the TLS certificate and the actual hostname of the remote host matched.

CVSS Scores

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