Improper Access Control Affecting tomcat package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.85)[8.0.0,8.0.50)[8.5.0,8.5.28)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382337
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-1305  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.85, 8.0.50, 8.5.28 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. Security constraints defined by annotations of Servlets in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.4, 8.5.0 to 8.5.27, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.49 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.84 were only applied once a Servlet had been loaded. Because security constraints defined in this way apply to the URL pattern and any URLs below that point, it was possible - depending on the order Servlets were loaded - for some security constraints not to be applied. This could have exposed resources to users who were not authorised to access them.

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