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Improper Access Control Affecting tomcat-docs-webapp package, versions <0:7.0.76-9.el7

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
14.81% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATDOCSWEBAPP-4947349
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed17 May 2018
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Introduced: 17 May 2018

CVE-2018-8014  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-docs-webapp to version 0:7.0.76-9.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2205.

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 defaults settings for the CORS filter provided in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.8, 8.5.0 to 8.5.31, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.52, 7.0.41 to 7.0.88 are insecure and enable 'supportsCredentials' for all origins. It is expected that users of the CORS filter will have configured it appropriately for their environment rather than using it in the default configuration. Therefore, it is expected that most users will not be impacted by this issue.

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