GHSA-2rvf-329f-p99g

System Property Disclosure in Apache Tomcat

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2016-6794
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Description

When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. 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, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 6.0.0, fixed 6.0.47
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.72
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.0.37
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 8.1.0, fixed 8.5.5
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.0.M10

References

Sources

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