GHSA-6m48-jxwx-76q7

Improper Authentication in Apache Tomcat

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2013-2067

Description

java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/FormAuthenticator.java in the form authentication feature in Apache Tomcat 6.0.21 through 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.33 does not properly handle the relationships between authentication requirements and sessions, which allows remote attackers to inject a request into a session by sending this request during completion of the login form, a variant of a session fixation attack.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 6.0.21, fixed 6.0.37
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.33

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database