Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core package, versions [8.5.0,8.5.93)[9.0.0-M1,9.0.80)[10.1.0-M1,10.1.13)[11.0.0-M1,11.0.0-M11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.73% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCATEMBED-5862028
  • published26 Aug 2023
  • disclosed25 Aug 2023
  • creditYiheng Cao

Introduced: 25 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-41080  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to version 8.5.93, 9.0.80, 10.1.13, 11.0.0-M11 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. If the ROOT (default) web application is configured to use FORM authentication then it is possible that a specially crafted URL could be used to trigger a redirect to an URL of the attackers choice.

The vulnerability is limited to the ROOT (default) web application.

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