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CVE-2016-5018 (GCVE-0-2016-5018)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-10 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • Sandbox Escape
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1548 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1549 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93942 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1552 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038757 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2247 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1551.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9b3a63a20c87… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037142 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1550 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3720 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d98287… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b5e3f51d28cd… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4557-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2018060… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155873/Tomca… x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat Affected: 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9
Affected: 8.5.0 to 8.5.4
Affected: 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36
Affected: 7.0.0 to 7.0.70
Affected: 6.0.0 to 6.0.45
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Date Public
2016-10-27 00:00
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Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.


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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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