Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina Open this link in a new tab package, versions [7.0.0, 7.0.81)
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-460342
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published
11 Oct 2017
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disclosed
19 Sep 2017
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credit
Tomcat Security Team
Introduced: 19 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-12616 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina
to version 7.0.81 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 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.