vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for tomcat7 (ALAS-2016-657) (multiple CVEs)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 24, 2016
Added
Mar 11, 2016
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.66, 8.x before 8.0.30, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2, when different session settings are used for deployments of multiple versions of the same web application, might allow remote attackers to hijack web sessions by leveraging use of a requestedSessionSSL field for an unintended request, related to CoyoteAdapter.java and Request.java.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-admin-webappsamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-docs-webappamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-el-2-2-apiamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-javadocamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-jsp-2-2-apiamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-libamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-log4jamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-servlet-3-0-apiamazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7-webapps
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