Improper Input Validation Affecting tomcat package, versions [,6.0.48)[7.0.0, 7.0.73)[8.0.0, 8.0.39)[8.5.0, 8.5.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.79% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382460
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-6816  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 6.0.48, 7.0.73, 8.0.39, 8.5.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The code in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M11, 8.5.0 to 8.5.6, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.38, 7.0.0 to 7.0.72, and 6.0.0 to 6.0.47 that parsed the HTTP request line permitted invalid characters. This could be exploited, in conjunction with a proxy that also permitted the invalid characters but with a different interpretation, to inject data into the HTTP response. By manipulating the HTTP response the attacker could poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack and/or obtain sensitive information from requests other then their own.

CVSS Scores

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