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medium 6.5

CVE-2018-1305 json

Apache Tomcat information exposure vulnerability

published 2018-02-23 8 y ago modified 2026-10-15 25 d ago also GHSA-jx6h-3fjx-cgv5 , EUVD-2018-0634

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.5%
EPSS 14.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Security constraints defined by annotations of Servlets in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.4, 8.5.0 to 8.5.27, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.49 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.84 were only applied once a Servlet had been loaded. Because security constraints defined in this way apply to the URL pattern and any URLs below that point, it was possible - depending on the order Servlets were loaded - for some security constraints not to be applied. This could have exposed resources to users who were not authorised to access them.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core 7.0.85, 8.5.28, 9.0.5
  • tomcat7 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.14
  • tomcat8 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1305

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  • 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-2018:0466RHSA-2019:2205

  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +2 more 8.0.50-29.8.2
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS 8.0.53-10.35.1
  • tomcat SLES 12-LTSS 7.0.90-7.23.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3388-1SUSE-SU-2018:3261-1SUSE-SU-2018:0817-1

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-2018-1305 updated cvss 4.8

tomcat: Late application of security constraints can lead to resource exposure for unauthorised users

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat7 tomcat7
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 tomcat8 tomcat8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 jbossweb jbossweb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes tomcat
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 7.0.76-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-lib 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-webapps 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.76-9.el7, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 7.0.76-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-lib 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-webapps 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.76-9.el7, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-lib 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-webapps 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-admin-webapps 7.0.76-9.el7, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-lib 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-webapps 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.76-9.el7, +3 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-lib 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-webapps 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-admin-webapps 7.0.76-9.el7, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) tomcat-jsvc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.76-9.el7, tomcat-docs-webapp 7.0.76-9.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2205
  • Red Hat Fuse Intergration Services 2.0 based on Fuse 6.3 R8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2939
  • 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
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  • Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1320
  • 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pki-deps:10.6/pki-servlet-container Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb
    +4 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-1.0-api, +5 more Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 karaf karaf, jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 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

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
25 d ago

Exploit prediction

14.47% 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 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
>=9.0.0M1, <9.0.5
>=8.5.0, <8.5.28
>=7.0.0, <7.0.85
9.0.5
8.5.28
7.0.85

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.