Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.30)
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EPSS
0.29% (70th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-30972
- published 17 Jun 2014
- disclosed 19 Dec 2012
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 19 Dec 2012
CVE-2012-3546 Open this link in a new tabOverview
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.30, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass security-constraint checks by leveraging a previous setUserPrincipal call and then placing /j_security_check at the end of a URI.
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