CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5018

Published: Aug 10, 2017 | Modified: Dec 08, 2023
CVSS 3.x
9.1
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Tomcat Apache 6.0.0 (including) 6.0.45 (including)
Tomcat Apache 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.70 (including)
Tomcat Apache 8.0 (including) 8.0.36 (including)
Tomcat Apache 8.5.0 (including) 8.5.4 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone1 (including) 9.0.0-milestone1 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone2 (including) 9.0.0-milestone2 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone3 (including) 9.0.0-milestone3 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone4 (including) 9.0.0-milestone4 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone5 (including) 9.0.0-milestone5 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone6 (including) 9.0.0-milestone6 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone7 (including) 9.0.0-milestone7 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone8 (including) 9.0.0-milestone8 (including)
Tomcat Apache 9.0.0-milestone9 (including) 9.0.0-milestone9 (including)

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