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medium 5.8

CVE-2011-1419 json

Apache Tomcat does not follow ServletSecurity annotations

published 2011-03-14 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-vch7-92vf-jm44 , EUVD-2022-5341

cvss
5.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.5%
EPSS 6.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.11, when web.xml has no security constraints, does not follow ServletSecurity annotations, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a web application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1088.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 7.0.11

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-1419 updated cvss 5.8

tomcat: various flaws due not following ServletSecurity annotations

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tomcat5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
>=7.0, <7.0.11
7.0.11

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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