Security Features Affecting tomcat-webapps package, versions <0:7.0.76-2.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATWEBAPPS-5212465
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 Oct 2016

Introduced: 27 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-5018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-webapps 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-webapps package and not the tomcat-webapps package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

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