Cache Poisoning Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [7.0.0, 7.0.79) [8.0.0RC1, 8.0.45) [8.5.0, 8.5.16) [9.0.0.M1, 9.0.0.M22)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.28% (68th percentile)
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NVD
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
5.9 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-460344
  • published 9 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 21 May 2017
  • credit Rick Riemer

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 7.0.79, 8.0.45, 8.5.16, 9.0.0.M22 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 Cache Poisoning. The CORS Filter did not add an HTTP Vary header indicating that the response varies depending on Origin. This permitted client and server side cache poisoning in some circumstances.

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