CVE-2017-12616
HIGH7.5EPSS 90.6%tomcat7 - security update
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 3/9/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/tomcat7from 0, < 7.0.28-4+deb7u15
- Debian/tomcat7from 0, < 7.0.56-3+really7.0.88-1
- Maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.81
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12616
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/tomcat
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0465
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0466
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1df9b4552464caa42047062fe7175da0da06c18ecc8daf99258bbda6@%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00008.html
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171018-0001
- WEBhttps://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03828en_us
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3665-1
- WEBhttps://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_54_Tomcat