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GHSA-v646-rx6w-r3qq Improper Access Control in Apache Tomcat

HIGH Published 2022-05-13 Modified 2024-02-22 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2016-5388
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-284
Reviewed
2022-07-06

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina: >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.72 → fixed in 7.0.72 • Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina: >= 8.0.0, < 8.5.5 → fixed in 8.5.5

Description

Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2016-5388 Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References