Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tomcat8  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-TOMCAT8-661085
  • published19 Sept 2017
  • disclosed19 Sept 2017

Introduced: 19 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat8 package and not the tomcat8 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.

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