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critical 9.1

CVE-2017-5648 in the critical feed json

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in Apache Tomcat

published 2017-04-17 9 y ago modified 2026-10-15 25 d ago also GHSA-3vx3-xf6q-r5xp , EUVD-2022-2247

cvss
9.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.2%
EPSS 13.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina 7.0.76, 8.0.42, 8.5.13, 9.0.0.M18
  • maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core 7.0.76, 8.0.42, 8.5.13, 9.0.0.M18
  • tomcat7 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.13
  • tomcat8 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5648

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  • tomcat7 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-22.ep7.el6
  • tomcat7 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-22.ep7.el7
  • tomcat8 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 8.0.36-24.ep7.el6
  • tomcat8 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 8.0.36-24.ep7.el7
  • log4j-eap6 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 1.2.16-12.redhat_3.1.ep6.el6
  • log4j-eap6 jboss enterprise web server 3.1 1.2.16-12.redhat_3.1.ep6.el7
  • tomcat7-lib jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-22.ep7.el6
  • tomcat7-lib jboss enterprise web server 3.1 7.0.70-22.ep7.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1801RHSA-2017:1809

  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1 8.0.43-10.19.1
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 8.0.43-23.1
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12-LTSS 7.0.78-7.13.4

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1660-1SUSE-SU-2017:1382-1SUSE-SU-2017:1229-1

  • tomcat openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.0.36-8.4
  • tomcat10 openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.1.14-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11468-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13441-1

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-2017-5648 updated cvss 3.6

tomcat: Calls to application listeners did not use the appropriate facade object

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat7 tomcat7 Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 jbossweb jbossweb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 tomcat7 tomcat7, tomcat8 tomcat8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-lib 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-webapps 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-lib 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-webapps 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-lib 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-webapps 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-admin-webapps 7.0.69-12.el7_3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-lib 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-jsvc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-webapps 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3, +3 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) tomcat 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-lib 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-webapps 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-admin-webapps 7.0.69-12.el7_3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) tomcat-jsvc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-javadoc 7.0.69-12.el7_3, tomcat-docs-webapp 7.0.69-12.el7_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1809
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1802
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 tomcat7 7.0.70-22.ep7.el6, tomcat8 8.0.36-24.ep7.el6, tomcat7-lib 7.0.70-22.ep7.el6, tomcat8-lib 8.0.36-24.ep7.el6, tomcat7-jsvc 7.0.70-22.ep7.el6, tomcat8-jsvc 8.0.36-24.ep7.el6, +20 more Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7 tomcat7 7.0.70-22.ep7.el7, tomcat8 8.0.36-24.ep7.el7, tomcat7-lib 7.0.70-22.ep7.el7, tomcat8-lib 8.0.36-24.ep7.el7, tomcat7-jsvc 7.0.70-22.ep7.el7, tomcat8-jsvc 8.0.36-24.ep7.el7, +20 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1801
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tomcat5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb
    +5 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-1.0-api, +5 more Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 jbossweb jbossweb 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

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
25 d ago

Exploit prediction

13.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina
>=9.0.0.M1, <9.0.0.M18
>=8.5.0, <8.5.13
>=8.0.0, <8.0.42
>=7.0.0, <7.0.76
9.0.0.M18
8.5.13
8.0.42
7.0.76
maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
>=9.0.0.M1, <9.0.0.M18
>=8.5.0, <8.5.13
>=8.0.0, <8.0.42
>=7.0.0, <7.0.76
9.0.0.M18
8.5.13
8.0.42
7.0.76

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Sources

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