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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2017-15706 json

Inconsistent documentation in Apache Tomcat

published 2018-01-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-372q-33vh-8mpc , EUVD-2022-2123

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.1%
EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

As part of the fix for bug 61201, the documentation for Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M22 to 9.0.1, 8.5.16 to 8.5.23, 8.0.45 to 8.0.47 and 7.0.79 to 7.0.82 included an updated description of the search algorithm used by the CGI Servlet to identify which script to execute. The update was not correct. As a result, some scripts may have failed to execute as expected and other scripts may have been executed unexpectedly. Note that the behaviour of the CGI servlet has remained unchanged in this regard. It is only the documentation of the behaviour that was wrong and has been corrected.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 7.0.84, 8.0.48, 8.5.24, 9.0.2
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +2 more 8.0.50-29.8.2
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS 8.0.53-10.35.1
  • tomcat SLES 12-LTSS 7.0.90-7.23.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3388-1SUSE-SU-2018:3261-1SUSE-SU-2018:0817-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15706 updated cvss 0.0

tomcat: Incorrect documentation of CGI Servlet search algorithm may lead to misconfiguration

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-jsvc, tomcat-javadoc, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-2.2-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-3.0-api, tomcat-docs-webapp, tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, +2 more Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat7 tomcat7, +6 more
    +4 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 tomcat7 tomcat7, tomcat8 tomcat8 Red Hat Software Collections rh-java-common-tomcat-lib, rh-java-common-tomcat-javadoc, rh-java-common-tomcat-el-2.2-api, rh-java-common-tomcat-jsp-2.2-api, rh-java-common-tomcat-servlet-3.0-api
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
>=9.0.0.M22, <9.0.2
>=8.5.16, <8.5.24
>=8.0.45, <8.0.48
>=7.0.79, <7.0.84
9.0.2
8.5.24
8.0.48
7.0.84

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-358 Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard
  • CWE-1068 Inconsistency Between Implementation and Documented Design

References

Sources

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