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Debian: CVE-2018-11784: tomcat7, tomcat8, tomcat9 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 4, 2018
Added
Feb 19, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-tomcat7debian-upgrade-tomcat8debian-upgrade-tomcat9
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