Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.76) [8.0.0-RC1,8.0.42) [8.5.0,8.5.12) [9.0.0.M1,9.0.0.M17)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-31420
- published 21 May 2017
- disclosed 11 Apr 2017
- credit Tomcat Security Team
Introduced: 11 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-5648 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 7.0.76, 8.0.42, 8.5.12, 9.0.0.M17 or higher..
Overview
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Disclosure. While investigating bug 60718, it was noticed that some calls to application listeners, It did not use the appropriate facade object. When running an untrusted application under a SecurityManager, it was therefore possible for that untrusted application to retain a reference to the request or response object and thereby access and/or modify information associated with another web application.