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Ubuntu: USN-3787-1 (CVE-2018-11784): Tomcat vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3787-1 (CVE-2018-11784): Tomcat vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/04/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/18/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat7-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat8-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat7
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat8

References

  • USN-3787-1
  • CVE-2018-11784

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