CVE-2017-5648

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-17 · updated 2026-10-15
Weakness: CWE-668

Description

While investigating bug 60718, it was noticed that some calls to application listeners in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M17, 8.5.0 to 8.5.11, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.41, and 7.0.0 to 7.0.75 did not use the appropriate facade object. When running an untrusted application under a SecurityManager, it was therefore possible for that untrusted application to retain a reference to the request or response object and thereby access and/or modify information associated with another web application.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+142)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3842
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3843
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/20/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97530
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038220
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1809
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.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/6af47120905aa7d8fe12f42e8ff2284fb338ba141d3b77b8c7cb61b3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

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