Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.72)[8,8.0.37)[8.5.0,8.5.5)[9-alpha,9.0.0.M10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30918
  • published28 Oct 2016
  • disclosed28 Oct 2016
  • creditthe Apache Tomcat Security Team

Introduced: 28 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-6797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 7.0.72, 8.0.37, 8.5.5, 9.0.0.M10 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. 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.

CVSS Scores

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