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Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:catalina package, versions [6.0.13, 6.0.47)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.13% (48th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
3.7 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30855
  • published 28 Oct 2016
  • disclosed 28 Oct 2016
  • credit the Apache Tomcat Security Team
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Introduced: 28 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-6797 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:catalina to version 6.0.47 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It was discovered that it was possible for a web application to access any global JNDI resource whether an explicit ResourceLink had been configured or not.