Session Fixation Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [9.0.0.M1, 9.0.30) [8.5.0,8.5.50) [,7.0.99)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-538469
  • published 20 Dec 2019
  • disclosed 18 Dec 2019
  • credit William Marlow (IBM)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 9.0.30, 8.5.50, 7.0.99 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 Session Fixation. When using FORM authentication there was a narrow window where an attacker could perform a session fixation attack. The window was considered too narrow for an exploit to be practical but, erring on the side of caution, this issue has been treated as a security vulnerability.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
3.1 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

7.5 high
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SUSE

3.4 low
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Red Hat

7.5 high