Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [7.0.11,7.0.12)
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EPSS
0.23% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-30957
- published 10 Jun 2015
- disclosed 8 Apr 2011
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 8 Apr 2011
CVE-2011-1183 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 7.0.12 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core is a Core Tomcat implementation.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. When web.xml has no login configuration, does not follow security constraints, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a meta-data complete web application.
NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1088 and CVE-2011-1419.
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