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CVE-2014-7810 json

Improper Access Control in Apache Tomcat

published 11y ago modified 26d ago also GHSA-4c43-cwvx-9crh , EUVD-2022-2350

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.3%
EPSS 13.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Expression Language (EL) implementation in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.44, 7.x before 7.0.58, and 8.x before 8.0.16 does not properly consider the possibility of an accessible interface implemented by an inaccessible class, which allows attackers to bypass a SecurityManager protection mechanism via a web application that leverages use of incorrect privileges during EL evaluation.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 6.0.44, 7.0.58, 8.0.16
  • tomcat6 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 6.0.39-1ubuntu0.1
  • tomcat6 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 6.0.45+dfsg-1
  • tomcat7 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7810

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • tomcat RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-lib RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-jsvc RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-javadoc RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-webapps RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-el-2.2-api RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-docs-webapp RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-jsp-2.2-api RHEL 7 7.0.54-8.el7_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2046RHSA-2015:1622RHSA-2016:0492

  • tomcat6 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 6.0.41-0.47.1
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12 7.0.55-8.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1565-1SUSE-SU-2015:1281-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2014-7810 updated cvss 5.8

Tomcat/JbossWeb: security manager bypass via EL expressions

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 tomcat6
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 jbossweb jbossweb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tomcat5 Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 jbossweb jbossweb
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-lib 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-webapps 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-lib 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-webapps 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2, +3 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2046
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-94.el6_7, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-94.el6_7, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0492
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-lib 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-webapps 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-admin-webapps 7.0.54-8.el7_2, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2046
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-admin-webapps 6.0.24-94.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0492
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-lib 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-webapps 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2, +3 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2046
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api 6.0.24-94.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0492
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-lib 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-webapps 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-admin-webapps 7.0.54-8.el7_2, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2046
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-94.el6_7, tomcat6-admin-webapps 6.0.24-94.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0492
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) tomcat-jsvc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.54-8.el7_2, tomcat-docs-webapp 7.0.54-8.el7_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2046
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 5 Server tomcat6 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el5, tomcat7 7.0.54-19_patch_04.ep6.el5, tomcat6-lib 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el5, tomcat7-lib 7.0.54-19_patch_04.ep6.el5, tomcat6-log4j 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el5, tomcat7-log4j 7.0.54-19_patch_04.ep6.el5, +14 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6 Server tomcat6 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el6, tomcat7 7.0.54-19_patch_04.ep6.el6, tomcat6-lib 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el6, tomcat7-lib 7.0.54-19_patch_04.ep6.el6, tomcat6-log4j 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el6, tomcat7-log4j 7.0.54-19_patch_04.ep6.el6, +14 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7 Server tomcat6 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el7, tomcat7 7.0.54-20_patch_04.ep6.el7, tomcat6-lib 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el7, tomcat7-lib 7.0.54-20_patch_04.ep6.el7, tomcat6-log4j 6.0.41-15_patch_04.ep6.el7, tomcat7-log4j 7.0.54-20_patch_04.ep6.el7, +14 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1622
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1621
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jbossweb jbossweb
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
26d ago

Exploit prediction

13.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
>=6.0.0, <6.0.44
>=7.0.0, <7.0.58
>=8.0.0, <8.0.16
6.0.44
7.0.58
8.0.16

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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