Information Exposure Affecting tomcat package, versions [0,8.5.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382439
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-8747  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 8.5.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An information disclosure issue was discovered in Apache Tomcat 8.5.7 to 8.5.9 and 9.0.0.M11 to 9.0.0.M15 in reverse-proxy configurations. Http11InputBuffer.java allows remote attackers to read data that was intended to be associated with a different request.

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