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high 7.5

CVE-2017-12616 in the critical feed json

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat

published 9y ago modified 25d ago also GHSA-8qq4-8jvq-mfw4 , EUVD-2022-3217

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
70.1%
EPSS 70.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina 7.0.81
  • tomcat7 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.14
  • tomcat7 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 7.0.68-1ubuntu0.4+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12616

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

  • tomcat7 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-25.ep7.el6
  • tomcat7 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-25.ep7.el7
  • tomcat8 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 8.0.36-29.ep7.el6
  • tomcat8 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 8.0.36-29.ep7.el7
  • mod_cluster jboss enterprise web server 3.1 1.3.8-2.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6
  • mod_cluster jboss enterprise web server 3.1 1.3.8-2.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el7
  • tomcat7-lib jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-25.ep7.el6
  • tomcat7-lib jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-25.ep7.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:0466

  • tomcat SLES 12-LTSS 7.0.82-7.16.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:3059-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2017-12616 updated cvss 5.3

tomcat: Information Disclosure when using VirtualDirContext

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-jsvc, tomcat-javadoc, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-2.2-api, +4 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat7 tomcat7 Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 jbossweb jbossweb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0465
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 tomcat7 7.0.70-25.ep7.el6, tomcat8 8.0.36-29.ep7.el6, tomcat7-lib 7.0.70-25.ep7.el6, tomcat8-lib 8.0.36-29.ep7.el6, tomcat7-jsvc 7.0.70-25.ep7.el6, tomcat8-jsvc 8.0.36-29.ep7.el6, +25 more Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7 tomcat7 7.0.70-25.ep7.el7, tomcat8 8.0.36-29.ep7.el7, tomcat7-lib 7.0.70-25.ep7.el7, tomcat8-lib 8.0.36-29.ep7.el7, tomcat7-jsvc 7.0.70-25.ep7.el7, tomcat8-jsvc 8.0.36-29.ep7.el7, +25 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0466
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tomcat5 Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat Software Collections rh-java-common-tomcat-lib, rh-java-common-tomcat-javadoc, rh-java-common-tomcat-el-2.2-api, rh-java-common-tomcat-jsp-2.2-api, rh-java-common-tomcat-servlet-3.0-api
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
25d ago

Exploit prediction

70.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina
>=7.0.0, <7.0.81
7.0.81

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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