CVE-2011-1183

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

Apache Tomcat 7.0.11, when web.xml has no login configuration, does not follow security constraints, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a meta-data complete web application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1088 and CVE-2011-1419.

Apache Tomcat 7.0.11, when web.xml has no login configuration, does not follow security constraints, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a meta-data complete web application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1088 and CVE-2011-1419.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 14 years ago

2011-04-08 15:17:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-09 19:30:00

Affected Software

Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 7.0.11

7.0.11

References

20110406 [SECURITY] CVE-2011-1183 Apache Tomcat security constraint bypass

8187

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1087643

Patch

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

20110406 [SECURITY] CVE-2011-1183 Apache Tomcat security constraint bypass

47196

tomcat-webxml-security-bypass(66675)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12701

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