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Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat:coyote Open this link in a new tab package, versions [6.0.13,6.0.48)

0.0
high

  • Exploit Maturity

    Proof of concept

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

  • Scope

    Changed

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30871

  • published

    23 Nov 2016

  • disclosed

    23 Nov 2016

  • credit

    Regis Leroy

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Introduced: 23 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-6816 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:coyote to version 6.0.48 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:coyote is a maven plugin for Tomcat Connectors and HTTP parser.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The code that parsed the HTTP request line permitted invalid characters. This could be exploited, in conjunction with a proxy that also permitted the invalid characters but with a different interpretation, to inject data into the HTTP response. By manipulating the HTTP response the attacker could poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack and/or obtain sensitive information from requests other then their own.