USN-4557-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities
USN-4557-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities It was discovered that the Tomcat realm implementations incorrectly handled passwords when a username didn’t exist. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to enumerate usernames. (CVE-2016-0762) Alvaro Munoz and Alexander Mirosh discovered that Tomcat incorrectly limited use of a certain utility method. A malicious application could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. (CVE-2016-5018) It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly controlled reading system properties. A malicious application could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. (CVE-2016-6794) It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly controlled certain configuration parameters. A malicious application could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. (CVE-2016-6796) It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly limited access to global JNDI resources. A malicious application could use this to access any global JNDI resource without an explicit ResourceLink. (CVE-2016-6797) Regis Leroy discovered that Tomcat [ more… ]