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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    78.91% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-451503
  • published 9 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 3 Oct 2018
  • credit Sergey Bobrov

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.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
5.6 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low