CVE-2012-3546

EPSS 2.2%

Authentication Bypass in Apache Tomcat

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 11/8/2023

Description

org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.30, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass security-constraint checks by leveraging a previous setUserPrincipal call and then placing /j_security_check at the end of a URI.

Affected packages (1)

References (37)