Open Redirect Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [7.0.23, 7.0.91)[8.5.0, 8.5.34)[9.0.0, 9.0.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
80.32% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-451503
  • published9 Oct 2018
  • disclosed3 Oct 2018
  • creditSergey Bobrov

Introduced: 3 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-11784  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-601  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 7.0.91, 8.5.34, 9.0.12 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core is a Core Tomcat implementation.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect. When the default servlet returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.

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