Access Restriction Bypass Affecting tomcat package, versions [5.5.9,6.0.15]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382361
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Dec 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Dec 2007

CVE-2007-5342  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for tomcat.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files, as demonstrated by changing the (1) level, (2) directory, and (3) prefix attributes in the org.apache.juli.FileHandler handler.

CVSS Scores

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