Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.85) [8.0.0.RC1,8.0.50) [8.5.0,8.5.28) [9.0.0.M1,9.0.5)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-32115
- published 5 Mar 2018
- disclosed 23 Feb 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 23 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-1304 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 7.0.85, 8.0.50, 8.5.28, 9.0.5 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 Access Restriction Bypass. The URL pattern of (the empty string) which exactly maps to the context root was not correctly handled, this caused the constraint to be ignored. It was, therefore, possible for unauthorised users to gain access to web application resources that should have been protected. Only security constraints with a URL pattern of the empty string were affected.