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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5018: Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 29, 2017
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Apr 22, 2022

Description

In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

Solutions

oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-6-0-47-0-175-3-15-0-2-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-tomcat-examples-6-0-47-0-175-3-15-0-2-0

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