Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU64536

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2012-5885

Published: June 21, 2022

Vulnerability identifier: #VU64536

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5885

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass intended access restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to replay-countermeasure functionality in the HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat tracks cnonce (aka client nonce) values instead of nonce (aka server nonce) and nc (aka nonce-count) values. A remote attacker can bypass intended access restrictions by sniffing the network for valid requests

Affected software

Apache Tomcat

How to mitigate CVE-2012-5885

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Tomcat - addressed in versions 5.5.36, 6.0.36, 7.0.30

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