Access Restriction Bypass Affecting tomcat package, versions [,7.0.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382419
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Nov 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Nov 2011

CVE-2011-3376  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.22 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass org/apache/catalina/core/DefaultInstanceManager.java in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.22 does not properly restrict ContainerServlets in the Manager application, which allows local users to gain privileges by using an untrusted web application to access the Manager application's functionality.

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