Security bypass in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2017-5664

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Security bypass in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2017-5664

Published: June 6, 2017 / Updated: June 12, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6950
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5664
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper handling of certain HTTP request methods for static error pages in Default Servlet. A remote attacker can bypass HTTP method restrictions and cause the error page to be deleted or replaced.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information modification.

Affected software

Apache Tomcat
Arch Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
MySQL Enterprise Monitor
Percona Server for MySQL
Dell Support Assist Enterprise
Storage Copy Data Management
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
Oracle Communications Interactive Session Recorder
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
tomcat

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5664

Update to version 7.0.78, 8.0.44, 8.5.15, 9.0.0.M21.

Dell Support Assist Enterprise - update to 4.00.06.00
Storage Copy Data Management - update to 2.2.26.0
tomcat - addressed in versions 7.0.78-1.el6, 8.0.44-1.fc24, 8.0.44-1.fc25, 8.0.44-1.fc26
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - addressed in versions 13.0.0.2.29, 13.1.0.2.20

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