CVE-2016-5018

Public on 2016-11-10
Modified on 2016-11-10
Description
It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.2
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat6 2016-11-10 ALAS-2016-764 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat7 2016-11-10 ALAS-2016-764 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat8 2016-11-10 ALAS-2016-764 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N