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CVE-2016-5018
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-10T16:29:00.407 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:48:37.433

Summary

In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

Affected products

apache — tomcat

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References

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