Security Constraint Bypass

Tomcat Catalina is vulnerable to security constraint bypasses. If an error page is a static file, catalina is supposed to serve the content of the file as if processing a GET request, regardless of the HTTP method used. Catalina, however, did not do this. This leads to unexpected results for stat...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 8.0.44

Important: Security Constraint Bypass CVE-2017-5664 The error page mechanism of the Java Servlet Specification requires that, when an error occurs and an error page is configured for the error that occurred, the original request and response are forwarded to the error page. This means that the...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M21

Important: Security Constraint Bypass CVE-2017-5664 The error page mechanism of the Java Servlet Specification requires that, when an error occurs and an error page is configured for the error that occurred, the original request and response are forwarded to the error page. This means that the...

CVE-2016-9879

An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Security before 3.2.10, 4.1.x before 4.1.4, and 4.2.x before 4.2.1. Spring Security does not consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints. By adding a URL path parameter with an encoded "/" to a request, an attacker may be able to...

CVE-2016-9879

It was found that Spring Security does not consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints. By adding a URL path parameter with an encoded / to a request an attacker may be able to bypass a security constraint. Mitigation Use a Servlet container known not to include path...

RedHat Update for tomcat6 RHSA-2016:2045-01

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

tomcat: directory disclosure

It was found that Tomcat could reveal the presence of a directory even when that directory was protected by a security constraint. A user could make a request to a directory via a URL not ending with a slash and, depending on whether Tomcat redirected that request, could confirm whether that...

CVE-2015-5345

The Mapper component in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.30, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 processes redirects before considering security constraints and Filters, which allows remote attackers to determine the existence of a directory via a URL that lacks a trailing /...

Apache Tomcat Directory Disclosure Vulnerability (Feb 2016) - Windows

Apache Tomcat is prone to a directory disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:apache:tomcat";...

Apache Tomcat Directory Disclosure Vulnerability (Feb 2016) - Linux

Apache Tomcat is prone to a directory disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:apache:tomcat";...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 6.0.45

Low: Limited directory traversal CVE-2015-5174 This issue only affects users running untrusted web applications under a security manager. When accessing resources via the ServletContext methods getResource getResourceAsStream and getResourcePaths the paths should be limited to the current web...

Apache Struts vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview Apache Struts provided by the Apache Software Foundation is a software framework for creating web applications in Java. Apache Struts is vulnerable to cross-site scripting when JSP files can be accessed directly. Takayoshi Isayama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. reported this...

Apache Struts 2 'action:' Parameter Prefix Security Constraint Bypass

The remote web application appears to use Struts 2, a web framework used for creating Java web applications. The version of Struts 2 in use is affected by a security constraint bypass vulnerability due to a flaw in the action mapping mechanism. Under certain unspecified conditions, an attacker...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: jbossweb security update

An update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1 that fixes one security issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which giv...

Ubuntu Update for tomcat7 USN-1685-1

Check for the Version of tomcat7 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN16851.nasl 8526 2018-01-25 06:57:37Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for tomcat7 USN-1685-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free softwar...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : tomcat6, tomcat7 vulnerabilities (USN-1685-1)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly performed certain security constraint checks in the FORM authenticator. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw with a specially crafted URI to bypass security constraint checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu...

USN-1685-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly performed certain security constraint checks in the FORM authenticator. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw with a specially-crafted URI to bypass security constraint checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu...

Web: Bypass of security constraints

org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.30, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass security-constraint checks by leveraging a previous setUserPrincipal call and then placing /jsecuritycheck at the end of a URI...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat6 security update

Updated tomcat6 packages that fix one security issue are now available for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2.0.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score,...

CVE-2012-3546

org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.30, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass security-constraint checks by leveraging a previous setUserPrincipal call and then placing /jsecuritycheck at the end of a URI...