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CVE-2016-5018

CVE-2016-5018

8Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 10%
exploitation probability
10%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tomcat
References
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155873/Tomcat-9.0.0.M1-Sandbox-Escape.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1551.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1548https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1549https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1550https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1552https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2247https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E