CRITICAL 9.1 Maven
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in Apache Tomcat
GHSA-4v3g-g84w-hv7r · CVE-2016-5018
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Description
In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5018
- WEB https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/648122fef84d3b43223e0b5ae668f84719dada0a
- WEB https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/890a2f681ed2f3461b27983d7da9737375ff2ae4
- WEB https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/a6b1ebc246b91b854237e5aad3dfd2b5460ea282
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9b3a63a20c87179815fdea14f6766853bafe79a0042dc0b4aa878a9e%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9b3a63a20c87179815fdea14f6766853bafe79a0042dc0b4aa878a9e@%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b5e3f51d28cd5d9b1809f56594f2cf63dcd6a90429e16ea9f83bbedc%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b5e3f51d28cd5d9b1809f56594f2cf63dcd6a90429e16ea9f83bbedc@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180605-0001
- WEB https://usn.ubuntu.com/4557-1
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20161125134649/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93942
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20170908024318/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037142
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20171012232225/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038757
- WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1548
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1549
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1550
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1552
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2247
- PACKAGE https://github.com/apache/tomcat
- WEB https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapache%2Ftomcat+jasper.runtime+path%3A%2F%5Eres%5C%2Fbnd%5C%2F%2F&type=code
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155873/Tomcat-9.0.0.M1-Sandbox-Escape.html
- WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html
- WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1551.html
- WEB http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3720
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