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Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina Open this link in a new tab package, versions [7.0.12, 7.0.14)

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30886

  • published

    10 Jun 2015

  • disclosed

    8 Apr 2011

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 8 Apr 2011

CVE-2011-1183 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 7.0.14 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 Access Restriction Bypass. When web.xml has no login configuration, does not follow security constraints, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a meta-data complete web application.

NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1088 and CVE-2011-1419.

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