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Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat:catalina package, versions [6.0.0, 6.0.20)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-468852
  • published 22 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 5 Jun 2009
  • credit Tomcat Security Team
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Introduced: 5 Jun 2009

CVE-2009-0783 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-592 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:catalina to version 6.0.20 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:catalina is a Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. It permits web applications to replace an XML parser used for other web applications, which allows local users to read or modify the web.xml, context.xml, or tld files of arbitrary web applications via a crafted application that is loaded earlier than the target application.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

4.2 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low