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Improper Access Control Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina Open this link in a new tab package, versions [7.35,8.5.5)

0.0
high

  • Attack Complexity

    High

  • Confidentiality

    High

  • Integrity

    High

  • Availability

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-174534

  • published

    22 Jul 2016

  • disclosed

    19 Jul 2016

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 19 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5388 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 8.5.5 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina is a Tomcat Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. It did not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an httpoxy issue.

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