Security Bypass Affecting tomcat package, versions [7.0.79,7.0.83)[8.0.45,8.0.48)[8.5.16,8.5.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382463
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-15706  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-358  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.83, 8.0.48, 8.5.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Bypass. As part of the fix for bug 61201, the documentation for Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M22 to 9.0.1, 8.5.16 to 8.5.23, 8.0.45 to 8.0.47 and 7.0.79 to 7.0.82 included an updated description of the search algorithm used by the CGI Servlet to identify which script to execute. The update was not correct. As a result, some scripts may have failed to execute as expected and other scripts may have been executed unexpectedly. Note that the behaviour of the CGI servlet has remained unchanged in this regard. It is only the documentation of the behaviour that was wrong and has been corrected.

CVSS Scores

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