Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.53) [8.0.0-RC1,8.0.4)
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0.13% (49th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-30980
- published 8 Sep 2014
- disclosed 31 May 2014
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 31 May 2014
CVE-2014-0096 Open this link in a new tabOverview
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
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