Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting tomcat package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.98)[8.5.0,8.5.48)[9.0.0,9.0.29)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382428
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-12418  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.98, 8.5.48, 9.0.29 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.

CVSS Scores

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