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CVE-2016-6794

Public on 2016-11-10
Modified on 2016-11-10
Description

It was discovered that when a SecurityManager was configured, Tomcat's system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat6 2016-11-10 18:00 ALAS-2016-764
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat7 2016-11-10 18:00 ALAS-2016-764
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat8 2016-11-10 18:00 ALAS-2016-764

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N