Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-30972
  • published17 Jun 2014
  • disclosed19 Dec 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Dec 2012

CVE-2012-3546  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

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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