Access Restriction Bypass Affecting tomcat package, versions [,7.0.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382397
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Aug 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.20 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for files via a request to an application.

CVSS Scores

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