Open Redirect The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.apache.tomcat:catalina  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
89.2% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-72423
  • published9 Oct 2018
  • disclosed3 Oct 2018
  • creditSergey Bobrov

Introduced: 3 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-11784  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-601  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect. When the default servlet returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.