CVE-2017-12616

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 70.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-19 · updated 2026-10-15
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 7.0.0, 7.0.0-beta, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.2-beta, 7.0.3 (+76)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100897
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039393
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0465
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0466
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1df9b4552464caa42047062fe7175da0da06c18ecc8daf99258bbda6%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00008.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171018-0001/
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03828en_us

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