Privilege Escalation Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [9.0.16, 9.0.29)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-538490
- published 20 Dec 2019
- disclosed 18 Dec 2019
- credit An Trinh of Viettel Cyber Security
Introduced: 18 Dec 2019
CVE-2019-12418 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 9.0.29 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core is a Core Tomcat implementation.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. When Tomcat is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.