Information Exposure Affecting tomcat package, versions [0,7.0.81)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
86.09% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382448
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.81 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.

CVSS Scores

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