CVE-2011-5063

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.34, 6.x before 6.0.33, and 7.x before 7.0.12 does not check realm values, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the availability of a protection space with weaker authentication or authorization requirements, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1184.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5 (+71)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00006.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0074.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0075.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0076.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0077.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0078.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0325.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57126
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1087655
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1158180

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