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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2015-5351): Tomcat vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 24, 2016
Added
Jul 5, 2016
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat6-javaubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat7-java

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