Security Features Affecting tomcat package, versions [,6.0.47)[7.0.0, 7.0.72)[8.0.0, 8.0.37)[8.5.0, 8.5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.49% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382334
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-5018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 6.0.47, 7.0.72, 8.0.37, 8.5.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Features. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

CVSS Scores

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