GHSA-hh3j-x4mc-g48r

Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Apache Tomcat

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2019-12418
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 0, fixed 7.0.99
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.5.49
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 9.0.0, fixed 9.0.29

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database