Open Redirect Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [7.0.23, 7.0.91) [8.5.0, 8.5.34) [9.0.0, 9.0.12)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 82.96% (99th percentile)
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NVD
4.3 medium
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SUSE
6.1 medium
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-459632
  • published 9 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 3 Oct 2018
  • credit Sergey Bobrov

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 7.0.91, 8.5.34, 9.0.12 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 Open Redirect. When the default servlet returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.