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CVE-2017-5648

Public on 2017-04-17
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description

A vulnerability was discovered in tomcat. When running an untrusted application under a SecurityManager it was possible, under some circumstances, for that application to retain references to the request or response objects and thereby access and/or modify information associated with another web application.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat7 2017-04-20 06:18 ALAS-2017-822
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat7 2017-08-17 18:30 ALAS-2017-873
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat8 2017-04-20 06:18 ALAS-2017-822

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N