Insufficiently Protected Credentials The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tomcat7 (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-TOMCAT7-1170824
published22 Aug 2025
disclosed23 Dec 2019

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Introduced: 23 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-12418 (opens in a new tab) CWE-522 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat7 package and not the tomcat7 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.