Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2016-8735

Public on 2016-12-15
Modified on 2016-12-15
Description

The JmxRemoteLifecycleListener was not updated to take account of Oracle's fix for CVE-2016-3427. JMXRemoteLifecycleListener is only included in EWS 2.x and JWS 3.x source distributions. If you deploy a Tomcat instance built from source, using the EWS 2.x, or JWS 3.x distributions, an attacker could use this flaw to launch a remote code execution attack on your deployed instance.

Severity
Important
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
8.1
See breakdown
Continue reading

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat6 2016-12-15 00:41 ALAS-2016-776
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat7 2016-12-15 00:48 ALAS-2016-777
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat8 2016-12-15 00:50 ALAS-2016-778

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H