5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
It was discovered that malicious web applications could use the
Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as
expressions were evaluated within a privileged code section.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0.14-1+deb8u1.
For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 8.0.21-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0.21-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.