Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.apache.tomcat:catalina Open this link in a new tab
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
92.59% (99th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-31536
- published 11 Oct 2017
- disclosed 19 Sep 2017
- credit Tomcat Security Team
Introduced: 19 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-12616 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
org.apache.tomcat:catalina is a Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. When using a VirtualDirContext
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.