Improper Access Control in Apache Tomcat
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 13, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 22, 2024
Package
Affected versions
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.72
>= 8.0.0, < 8.5.5
Patched versions
7.0.72
8.5.5
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jul 19, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 13, 2022
Reviewed
Jul 6, 2022
Last updated
Feb 22, 2024
Credits
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sunSUNQ Analyst
Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.
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