🛡️ CVE-2016-8735 — tomcat-catalina

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Tomcat Improper Access Control vulnerability

Remote code execution is possible with Apache Tomcat before 6.0.48, 7.x before 7.0.73, 8.x before 8.0.39, 8.5.x before 8.5.7, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M12 if JmxRemoteLifecycleListener is used and an attacker can reach JMX ports.

The issue exists because this listener wasn't updated for consistency with the CVE-2016-3427 Oracle patch that affected credential types.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, 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-2016-8735 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2016-8735 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (from 9.0.0.M1 up to 9.0.0.M12)
  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote (from 9.0.0.M1 up to 9.0.0.M12)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 22 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
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github.com (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-10-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina 9.0.0.M1 9.0.0.M12
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote 9.0.0.M1 9.0.0.M12

References

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