Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting tomcat package, versions [,7.0.79)[8.0.0, 8.0.45)[8.5.0, 8.5.16)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382318
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Aug 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.79, 8.0.45, 8.5.16 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. 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.

CVSS Scores

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