Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tomcat:tomcat-util (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-TOMCAT-31384
- published28 Oct 2016
- disclosed28 Oct 2016
- creditThe Apache Tomcat Security Team
Introduced: 28 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-6794 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
tomcat:tomcat-util is a Common code shared by multiple Tomcat components.
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.