GHSA-6m48-jxwx-76q7Medium

Improper Authentication in Apache Tomcat

Published
May 14, 2022
Last Modified
January 27, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/FormAuthenticator.java in the form authentication feature in Apache Tomcat 6.0.21 through 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.33 does not properly handle the relationships between authentication requirements and sessions, which allows remote attackers to inject a request into a session by sending this request during completion of the login form, a variant of a session fixation attack.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 6.0.21, < 6.0.37
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.33

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