GHSA-jgm2-m5cg-f66gMedium

Authentication Bypass in Apache Tomcat

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
May 1, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2012-3546 →

📋 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 products2

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.36
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.30

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