Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [4.1.0, 4.1.37) [5.5.0, 5.5.26) [6.0.0, 6.0.16)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    18.42% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-459952
  • published 17 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 12 Feb 2008
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 4.1.37, 5.5.26, 6.0.16 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. The previous fix for CVE-2007-3385 was incomplete. It did not consider the use of quotes or %5C within a cookie value which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be leaked to remote attackers and enable session hijacking attacks.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

5.3 medium