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CVE-2016-5388 Improper Access Control in Apache Tomcat

HighCVSS 8.1 EPSS 50.9%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.72 7.0.72
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.0 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.11 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.12 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.14 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.16 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.19 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.2 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.20 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.21 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.22 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.23 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.25 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.26 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.27 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.28 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.29 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.30 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.32 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.33 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.34 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.35 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.37 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.39 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.4 No fix listed
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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.40 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.41 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.42 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.47 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.5 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.50 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.52 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.53 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.54 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.55 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.56 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.57 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.59 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.6 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.61 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.62 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.63 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.64 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.65 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.67 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.68 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.69 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.70 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 7.0.8 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) >= 8.0.0, < 8.5.5 8.5.5
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.1 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.11 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.12 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.14 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.15 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.17 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.18 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.20 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.21 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.22 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.23 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.24 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.26 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.27 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.28 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.29 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.3 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.30 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.32 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.33 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.35 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.36 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.37 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.38 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.39 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.41 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.42 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.43 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.44 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.45 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.46 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.47 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.48 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.49 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.5 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.50 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.51 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.52 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.53 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.8 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.0.9 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.5.0 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.5.2 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.5.3 No fix listed
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina(Maven) = 8.5.4 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux desktop = 7.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux desktop = 6.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux hpc node = 7.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux hpc node = 6.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux hpc node eus = 7.2 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux server = 7.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux server = 6.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux server aus = 7.2 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux server eus = 7.2 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux server tus = 7.2 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux workstation = 7.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux workstation = 6.0 No fix listed
HP Inc system management homepage <= 7.5.5.0 No fix listed
oracle linux = 6 No fix listed
oracle linux = 7 No fix listed
apache tomcat >= 6.0, <= 6.0.45 No fix listed
apache tomcat >= 7.0, <= 7.0.70 No fix listed
apache tomcat >= 8.0, <= 8.5.4 No fix listed

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