GHSA-wxcp-f2c8-x6xvMediumCVSS 5.9

Observable Discrepancy in Apache Tomcat

Published
May 13, 2022
Last Modified
February 22, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The Realm implementations in Apache Tomcat versions 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 did not process the supplied password if the supplied user name did not exist. This made a timing attack possible to determine valid user names. Note that the default configuration includes the LockOutRealm which makes exploitation of this vulnerability harder.

🎯 Affected products5

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 9.0.0M1, <= 9.0.0.M9
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.5.0, <= 8.5.4
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.0.0.RC1, <= 8.0.36
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.72
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 6.0.0, <= 6.0.45

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