CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6796

Published: Aug 11, 2017 | Modified: Dec 08, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A malicious web application running on 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 was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet.

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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