CVE-2016-0714

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-25 · updated 2026-10-15
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The session-persistence implementation in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 mishandles session attributes, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a web application that places a crafted object in a session.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 6.0.0, 6.0.0-alpha, 6.0.1, 6.0.1-alpha, 6.0.2, 6.0.2-alpha (+92)
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/msg00082.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00085.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145974991225029&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.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/145
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1725263

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