Improper Access Control Affecting tomcat package, versions [6.0,6.0.47)[7.0,7.0.72)[8.0,8.5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
96.33% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382372
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jul 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5388  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

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