Improper Access Control Affecting tomcat package, versions [,6.0.48)[7.0.0, 7.0.73)[8.0.0, 8.0.39)[8.5.0, 8.5.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
94.49% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382292
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-8735  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 6.0.48, 7.0.73, 8.0.39, 8.5.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. Remote code execution is possible with Apache Tomcat before 6.0.48, 7.x before 7.0.73, 8.x before 8.0.39, 8.5.x before 8.5.7, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M12 if JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is used and an attacker can reach JMX ports. The issue exists because this listener wasn't updated for consistency with the CVE-2016-3427 Oracle patch that affected credential types.

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