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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-8735: tomcat6, tomcat7 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 10, 2016
Added
Dec 19, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Remote code execution is possible with Apache Tomcat before 6.0.48, 7.x before 7.0.73, 8.x before 8.0.39, 8.5.x before 8.5.7, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M12 if JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is used and an attacker can reach JMX ports. The issue exists because this listener wasn't updated for consistency with the CVE-2016-3427 Oracle patch that affected credential types.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-tomcat6debian-upgrade-tomcat7
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