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CRITICAL

tomcat: security manager bypass via IntrospectHelper utility function

Published Aug 10, 2017

Description

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 products

Remediation

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Weaknesses (1)

References (58)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner apache
Published Aug 10, 2017
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved May 24, 2016
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Oct 27, 2016
GHSA-4V3G-G84W-HV7R