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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-11784: Security patch for tomcat8 ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 4, 2018
Added
Nov 8, 2018
Modified
May 21, 2019

Description

When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.11, 8.5.0 to 8.5.33 and 7.0.23 to 7.0.90 returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8
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