Improper Access Control Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina Open this link in a new tab package, versions [7.35,8.5.5)
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-174534
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published
22 Jul 2016
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disclosed
19 Jul 2016
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 19 Jul 2016
CVE-2016-5388 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.