GHSA-4v3g-g84w-hv7r

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in Apache Tomcat

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2016-5018
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

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 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jasperintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.0.M10
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jasperintroduced 8.5.0, fixed 8.5.5
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jasperintroduced 8.0.0RC1, fixed 8.0.37
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jasperintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.72
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:jasperintroduced 6.0.0, fixed 6.0.47
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasperintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.0.M10
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasperintroduced 8.5.0, fixed 8.5.5
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasperintroduced 8.0.0RC1, fixed 8.0.37
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasperintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.72
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasperintroduced 6.0.0, fixed 6.0.47

References

Sources

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