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Red Hat: CVE-2015-5346: Important: tomcat security update (RHSA-2016:2046)

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Red Hat: CVE-2015-5346: Important: tomcat security update (RHSA-2016:2046)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/24/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/21/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.66, 8.x before 8.0.30, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2, when different session settings are used for deployments of multiple versions of the same web application, might allow remote attackers to hijack web sessions by leveraging use of a requestedSessionSSL field for an unintended request, related to CoyoteAdapter.java and Request.java.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-admin-webapps
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-docs-webapp
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-el-2-2-api
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-javadoc
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-jsp-2-2-api
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-jsvc
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-lib
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-servlet-3-0-api
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-webapps

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