Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.72) [8,8.0.37) [8.5.0,8.5.5) [9-alpha,9.0.0.M10)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.13% (48th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-451527
- published 28 Oct 2016
- disclosed 28 Oct 2016
- credit the Apache Tomcat Security Team
Introduced: 28 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-6797 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 7.0.72, 8.0.37, 8.5.5, 9.0.0.M10 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core is a Core Tomcat implementation.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It was discovered that it was possible for a web application to access any global JNDI resource whether an explicit ResourceLink had been configured or not.