Improper Authentication Affecting tomcat package, versions [,5.5.34)[6.0.0,6.0.33)[7.0.0,7.0.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382362
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Jan 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jan 2012

CVE-2011-5063  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 5.5.34, 6.0.33, 7.0.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. The HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.34, 6.x before 6.0.33, and 7.x before 7.0.12 does not check realm values, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the availability of a protection space with weaker authentication or authorization requirements, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1184.

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