Access Restriction Bypass Affecting tomcat:catalina package, versions [4.0.4,5.5.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.07% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-TOMCAT-31373
  • published28 Oct 2016
  • disclosed28 Oct 2016
  • creditthe Apache Tomcat Security Team

Introduced: 28 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-6797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat:catalina to version 5.5.24 or higher.

Overview

tomcat:catalina is a library that contains Tomcat Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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