vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6794): Tomcat vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 10, 2016
Added
Jan 24, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. 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, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libservlet2-5-javaubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat6-javaubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat7-javaubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat8-javaubuntu-upgrade-tomcat6ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat7ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat8

References

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