Authentication Bypass in Apache Tomcat
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated May 1, 2023
Package
Affected versions
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.36
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.30
Patched versions
6.0.36
7.0.30
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Dec 19, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
Jul 13, 2022
Last updated
May 1, 2023
Credits
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tdunlap607 Analyst
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 /j_security_check at the end of a URI.
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