GHSA-cw54-59pw-4g8cCriticalCVSS 9.8

Apache Tomcat Improper Access Control vulnerability

Published
May 13, 2022
Last Modified
October 22, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Remote code execution is possible with Apache Tomcat before 6.0.48, 7.x before 7.0.73, 8.x before 8.0.39, 8.5.x before 8.5.7, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M12 if JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is used and an attacker can reach JMX ports. The issue exists because this listener wasn't updated for consistency with the CVE-2016-3427 Oracle patch that affected credential types.

🎯 Affected products10

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:< 6.0.48
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.73
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.39
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.7
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 9.0.0.M1, < 9.0.0.M12
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote:< 6.0.48
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.73
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote:>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.39
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote:>= 8.5.0, < 8.5.7
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote:>= 9.0.0.M1, < 9.0.0.M12

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