VULNERABILITY

Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-679) (multiple CVEs)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-679) (multiple CVEs)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/24/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/30/2016
Modified
02/18/2025

Description

The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-admin-webapps
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-docs-webapp
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-el-3-0-api
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-javadoc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-jsp-2-3-api
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-lib
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-log4j
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-servlet-3-1-api
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8-webapps

References

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