Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting tomcat-webapps package, versions <0:7.0.76-3.el7_4


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATWEBAPPS-7962381
  • published14 Sept 2024
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-7674  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-webapps to version 0:7.0.76-3.el7_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:3081.

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.

The CORS Filter in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M21, 8.5.0 to 8.5.15, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.44 and 7.0.41 to 7.0.78 did not add an HTTP Vary header indicating that the response varies depending on Origin. This permitted client and server side cache poisoning in some circumstances.

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