Improper Access Control Affecting tomcat-docs-webapp package, versions <0:7.0.76-2.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATDOCSWEBAPP-4752739
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 Oct 2016

Introduced: 27 Oct 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-docs-webapp to version 0:7.0.76-2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:2247.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-docs-webapp package and not the tomcat-docs-webapp package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The ResourceLinkFactory implementation in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 did not limit web application access to global JNDI resources to those resources explicitly linked to the web application. Therefore, it was possible for a web application to access any global JNDI resource whether an explicit ResourceLink had been configured or not.

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