Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat:catalina package, versions [6.0.13, 6.0.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-471342
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed16 Jun 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jun 2009

CVE-2008-5515  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-592  (opens 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. When using a RequestDispatcher obtained from the Request, the target path was normalised before the query string was removed. A request that included a specially crafted request parameter could be used to access content that would otherwise be protected by a security constraint or by locating it in under the WEB-INF directory. This was fixed in revisions 782763 and783292.

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