Open Redirect Affecting tomcat-lib package, versions <9.0.12-3.8.3

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Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-TOMCATLIB-2758437
published14 Apr 2022
disclosed3 Dec 2018

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Introduced: 3 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-11784 (opens in a new tab) CWE-601 (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 tomcat-lib to version 9.0.12-3.8.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-lib package and not the tomcat-lib package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.11, 8.5.0 to 8.5.33 and 7.0.23 to 7.0.90 returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.