Improper Authentication Affecting tomcat package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.109)[8.5.0,8.5.66)[9.0.0,9.0.46)[10.0.0,10.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382455
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-30640  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.109, 8.5.66, 9.0.46, 10.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. A vulnerability in the JNDI Realm of Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to authenticate using variations of a valid user name and/or to bypass some of the protection provided by the LockOut Realm. This issue affects Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.5; 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.45; 8.5.0 to 8.5.65.

CVSS Scores

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