Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [7.0.12, 7.0.14)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.23% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-30886
- published 10 Jun 2015
- disclosed 8 Apr 2011
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 8 Apr 2011
CVE-2011-1183 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina
to version 7.0.14 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 Access Restriction Bypass. When web.xml
has no login configuration, does not follow security constraints, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a meta-data complete web application.
NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1088
and CVE-2011-1419
.