CVE-2016-6796

CVE-2016-6796

High · published August 11, 2017

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
8%
Percentile
94.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A malicious web application running on 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 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.08321 · 94.9th percentile
Published
2017-08-11T06:29Z
Affected products (34)
ProductVersionsFixed in
apache/tomcat≥ 6.0.0, ≤ 6.0.45—
apache/tomcat≥ 7.0.0, ≤ 7.0.70—
apache/tomcat≥ 8.0, ≤ 8.0.36—
apache/tomcat≥ 8.5.0, ≤ 8.5.4—
apache/tomcatall versions—
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References (62)
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180605-0001/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4557-1/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 AUG 02:00Z
    A malicious web application running on 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 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 was able to…
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