CVE-2018-1304

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Published 2018-10-17 · Modified 2024-11-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

The URL pattern of "" (the empty string) which exactly maps to the context root was not correctly handled in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.4, 8.5.0 to 8.5.27, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.49 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.84 when used as part of a security constraint definition. This caused the constraint to be ignored. It was, therefore, possible for unauthorised users to gain access to web application resources that should have been protected. Only security constraints with a URL pattern of the empty string were affected.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`0`
forky	Fixed	`0`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core	`>=9.0.0,<9.0.5`	`9.0.5`
Maven	org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core	`>=8.5.0,<8.5.28`	`8.5.28`
Maven	org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core	`>=8.0.0,<8.0.51`	`8.0.51`
Maven	org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core	`>=7.0.0,<7.0.86`	`7.0.86`

References

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

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