CVE-2012-5886

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-17 · updated 2026-10-09
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.36, 6.x before 6.0.36, and 7.x before 7.0.30 caches information about the authenticated user within the session state, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass authentication via vectors related to the session ID.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5 (+101)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00089.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00090.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00037.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0623.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0629.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0631.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0632.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0633.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0640.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0647.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0648.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0726.html

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