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Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat — When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager.
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L N N U L N N 5.3 .0715 94.2 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9 – —
TIMELINE
Aug 12 Reserved by apache
Aug 10 Published (CNA: apache)
Oct 15 ENRICHED — CVE-2016-6794 (Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat). Received CVSS 5.3 and CPE data from NVD.
Description
When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. 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, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.
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