CVE-2015-5351

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-25 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 7.0.0-beta, 7.0.2-beta, 7.0.4-beta, 7.0.5-beta, 7.0.6, 7.0.10 (+62)
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00047.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00069.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00085.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135882/Apache-Tomcat-CSRF-Token-Leak.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2599.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2807.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2808.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Feb/148
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720652
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720655
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720658

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