Improper Access Control Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [7.35,8.5.5)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 94.82% (100th percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high
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Red Hat
3.5 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-174534
  • published 22 Jul 2016
  • disclosed 19 Jul 2016
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 8.5.5 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina is a Tomcat Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. It did not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an httpoxy issue.

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