HIGH 7.5 Maven
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat
GHSA-8qq4-8jvq-mfw4 · CVE-2017-12616
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Description
When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12616
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0465
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0466
- PACKAGE https://github.com/apache/tomcat
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1df9b4552464caa42047062fe7175da0da06c18ecc8daf99258bbda6@%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708@%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@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00008.html
- WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171018-0001
- WEB https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03828en_us
- WEB https://usn.ubuntu.com/3665-1
- WEB https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_54_Tomcat
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