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Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:catalina Open this link in a new tab package, versions [6,6.0.36)

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30839

  • published

    17 Jun 2014

  • disclosed

    19 Dec 2012

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 19 Dec 2012

CVE-2012-3546 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:catalina org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.30, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass security-constraint checks by leveraging a previous setUserPrincipal call and then placing /j_security_check at the end of a URI.

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