Improper Access Control Affecting tomcat package, versions [,6.0.47)[7.0.0, 7.0.72)[8.0.0, 8.0.37)[8.5.0, 8.5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382480
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-6797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 6.0.47, 7.0.72, 8.0.37, 8.5.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The ResourceLinkFactory implementation in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 did not limit web application access to global JNDI resources to those resources explicitly linked to the web application. Therefore, it was possible for a web application to access any global JNDI resource whether an explicit ResourceLink had been configured or not.

CVSS Scores

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