Security Features 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
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382400
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-6796  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (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 Security Features. A malicious web application running on 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 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet.

CVSS Scores

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