CVE-2016-6796

HIGHNVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 8.3% (94th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 8.3%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A malicious web application running on 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 was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
52
EG Risk 52/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation8.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
8.3%
EPSS %ILE
94th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
8.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-21). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 11, 2017

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2247
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1552
Web page

CVE-2016-6796 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93944
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1549
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1548

Patch Availability(11)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibservlet2.5-java-doc (6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) @ xenial2026-10-22ubuntu
ubuntutomcat8 (8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1) @ yakkety2026-10-22ubuntu
redhattomcat-0:7.0.76-2.el72017-08-01redhat
redhatpatch2017-06-20redhat
redhatresteasy-0:2.3.20-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el52017-06-20redhat
redhatresteasy-0:2.3.20-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el72017-06-20redhat
redhatresteasy-0:2.3.20-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el62017-06-20redhat
redhatjboss-ec2-eap-0:7.5.16-1.Final_redhat_1.ep6.el62017-06-20redhat
redhattomcat-vault-0:1.0.8-9.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el62017-03-07redhat
redhatpatch2017-03-07redhat
redhattomcat-vault-0:1.0.8-9.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el72017-03-07redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:7(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tomcat66.0.35-6 ... 6.0.45-1~deb6u1 (15 versions)
  • every version up to 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3: fixed in 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3
—
tomcat77.0.28-4 ... 7.0.28-4+deb7u6 (7 versions)
  • every version up to 7.0.28-4+deb7u7: fixed in 7.0.28-4+deb7u7
—
Debian:8(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tomcat77.0.56-3, 7.0.56-3+deb8u1, 7.0.56-3+deb8u2, 7.0.56-3+deb8u3, 7.0.56-3+deb8u4
  • every version up to 7.0.56-3+deb8u5: fixed in 7.0.56-3+deb8u5
—
tomcat88.0.14-1, 8.0.14-1+deb8u1, 8.0.14-1+deb8u2, 8.0.14-1+deb8u3
  • every version up to 8.0.14-1+deb8u4: fixed in 8.0.14-1+deb8u4
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Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat7.0.35 ... 7.0.70 (24 versions)
  • 9.0.0.M1 up to 9.0.0.M10: fixed in 9.0.0.M10
  • 8.5.0 up to 8.5.5: fixed in 8.5.5
  • 8.0.0.RC1 up to 8.0.37: fixed in 8.0.37
  • 7.0.0 up to 7.0.71: fixed in 7.0.71
  • 6.0.0 up to 6.0.46: fixed in 6.0.46
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Additional Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 91 of 171 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 9 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 80 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2016-6796?
CVE-2016-6796 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 11, 2017. A malicious web application running on 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 was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet.
When was CVE-2016-6796 made public?
CVE-2016-6796 was made public on October 27, 2016: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Apache Software Foundation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 11, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2016-6796 actively exploited?
CVE-2016-6796 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (94th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2016-6796?
CVE-2016-6796 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2016-6796?
A fix for CVE-2016-6796 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2016-6796 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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