Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') Affecting tomcat-webapps package, versions <0:7.0.42-8.el7_0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATWEBAPPS-5023172
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 May 2014

Introduced: 27 May 2014

CVE-2014-0119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-470  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-webapps to version 0:7.0.42-8.el7_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:1034.

NVD Description

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

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.54, and 8.x before 8.0.6 does not properly constrain the class loader that accesses the XML parser used with an XSLT stylesheet, which allows remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, or (2) read files associated with different web applications on a single Tomcat instance via a crafted web application.

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