Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.85)[8.0.0.RC1,8.0.50)[8.5.0,8.5.28)[9.0.0.M1,9.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-32115
  • published5 Mar 2018
  • disclosed23 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-1304  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 7.0.85, 8.0.50, 8.5.28, 9.0.5 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. The URL pattern of (the empty string) which exactly maps to the context root was not correctly handled, this caused the constraint to be ignored. It was, therefore, possible for unauthorised users to gain access to web application resources that should have been protected. Only security constraints with a URL pattern of the empty string were affected.

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