GHSA-qprx-q2r7-3rx6Medium

Improper Input Validation in Apache Tomcat

Published
May 14, 2022
Last Modified
April 14, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

🎯 Affected products6

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:< 6.0.40
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.54
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:< 6.0.40
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.54
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6

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