Information Exposure 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
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382374
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-6794  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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 Information Exposure. When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. 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, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.

CVSS Scores

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