VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0763

medium
Published 2016-02-25 · Modified 2024-03-11
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CVSS v3
6.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.3

Description

The setGlobalContext method in org/apache/naming/factory/ResourceLinkFactory.java in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M3 does not consider whether ResourceLinkFactory.setGlobalContext callers are authorized, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and read or write to arbitrary application data, or cause a denial of service (application disruption), via a web application that sets a crafted global context.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
73%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=7.0.0,<7.0.687.0.68
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=8.0.0,<8.0.328.0.32
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=9.0.0M1,<9.0.0.M39.0.0.M3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachetomcat7.0.0
apache apachetomcat7.0.2
apache apachetomcat7.0.4
apache apachetomcat7.0.5
apache apachetomcat7.0.6
apache apachetomcat7.0.10
apache apachetomcat7.0.11
apache apachetomcat7.0.12
apache apachetomcat7.0.14
apache apachetomcat7.0.16
apache apachetomcat7.0.19
apache apachetomcat7.0.20
apache apachetomcat7.0.21
apache apachetomcat7.0.22
apache apachetomcat7.0.23
apache apachetomcat7.0.25
apache apachetomcat7.0.26
apache apachetomcat7.0.27
apache apachetomcat7.0.28
apache apachetomcat7.0.29
apache apachetomcat7.0.30
apache apachetomcat7.0.32
apache apachetomcat7.0.33
apache apachetomcat7.0.34
apache apachetomcat7.0.35
apache apachetomcat7.0.37
apache apachetomcat7.0.39
apache apachetomcat7.0.40
apache apachetomcat7.0.41
apache apachetomcat7.0.42
apache apachetomcat7.0.47
apache apachetomcat7.0.50
apache apachetomcat7.0.52
apache apachetomcat7.0.53
apache apachetomcat7.0.54
apache apachetomcat7.0.55
apache apachetomcat7.0.56
apache apachetomcat7.0.57
apache apachetomcat7.0.59
apache apachetomcat7.0.61
apache apachetomcat7.0.62
apache apachetomcat7.0.63
apache apachetomcat7.0.64
apache apachetomcat7.0.65
apache apachetomcat7.0.67
apache apachetomcat8.0.0
apache apachetomcat8.0.1
apache apachetomcat8.0.3
apache apachetomcat8.0.11
apache apachetomcat8.0.12
apache apachetomcat8.0.14
apache apachetomcat8.0.15
apache apachetomcat8.0.17
apache apachetomcat8.0.18
apache apachetomcat8.0.20
apache apachetomcat8.0.21
apache apachetomcat8.0.22
apache apachetomcat8.0.23
apache apachetomcat8.0.24
apache apachetomcat8.0.26
apache apachetomcat8.0.27
apache apachetomcat8.0.28
apache apachetomcat8.0.29
apache apachetomcat8.0.30
apache apachetomcat9.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.