Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [8,8.0.37) [8.5.0,8.5.5) [9-alpha,9.0.0.M10)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (46th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-451529
- published 28 Oct 2016
- disclosed 28 Oct 2016
- credit the Apache Tomcat Security Team
Introduced: 28 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-6794 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 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 Information Exposure. It was discovered that when a SecurityManager is configured Tomcat's system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.
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