🛡️ CVE-2015-5346 — tomcat

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Apache Tomcat

Session fixation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.66, 8.x before 8.0.30, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2, when different session settings are used for deployments of multiple versions of the same web application, might allow remote attackers to hijack web sessions by leveraging use of a requestedSessionSSL field for an unintended request, related to CoyoteAdapter.java and Request.java.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-5346 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2015-5346 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (from 7.0.0 up to 7.0.66)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 11 March 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)
security.gentoo.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
h20566.www2.hpe.com (Web)
h20566.www2.hpe.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-03-11
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 7.0.0 7.0.66

References

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