Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.apache.tomcat:catalina  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-31536
  • published11 Oct 2017
  • disclosed19 Sept 2017
  • creditTomcat Security Team

Introduced: 19 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

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. When using a VirtualDirContext it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.