Information disclosure in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2018-8014

 

Information disclosure in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2018-8014

Published: May 17, 2018 / Updated: July 25, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12798
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-8014
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.
The weakness exists due to the defaults settings for the CORS filter are insecure and enable supportsCredentials for all origins. It is expected that users of the CORS filter will have configured it appropriately for their environment rather than using it in the default configuration. A remote attacker can access important data.


Affected software

Apache Tomcat
JBoss Enterprise Web Server
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Opensuse
Dell Support Assist Enterprise
Storage Copy Data Management
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
Dell EMC Unity VSA Operating Environment (OE)
Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE)
tomcat

How to mitigate CVE-2018-8014

Update to version 8.0.53 or 8.5.32.
Update to version 9.0.9.

Apache Tomcat - addressed in versions 8.0.53, 8.5.32, 9.0.9
Dell Support Assist Enterprise - update to 4.00.06.00
Storage Copy Data Management - update to 2.2.26.0
Dell EMC Unity VSA Operating Environment (OE) - update to 5.0.0.0.5.116
Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE) - update to 5.0.0.0.5.116
tomcat - addressed in versions 7.0.90-1.el6, 8.0.53-1.fc27, 8.5.32-1.fc28
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - addressed in versions 13.0.0.2.29, 13.1.0.2.20

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