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

0.0
high

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Confidentiality

    High

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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.