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CVE

CVE-2017-12616

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat

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.

Base CVSS

7.5

EPSS Score

91.32%

Introduced Version

6.0.13

Fix Available

7.0.81

Fix without Upgrading

Available Patches

Package

CVEs Fixed

Lines of Code Changed

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina

References

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03828en_us

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0466

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3665-1

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0465

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171018-0001

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00008.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12616

https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_54_Tomcat

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1df9b4552464caa42047062fe7175da0da06c18ecc8daf99258bbda6@%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://github.com/apache/tomcat

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