CVE-2011-1183

Tomcat vulnerability

CVSS

5.8

EPSS

6.2%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

Apache Tomcat 7.0.11, when web.xml has no login configuration, does not follow security constraints, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a meta-data complete web application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1088 and CVE-2011-1419.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Tomcat

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Published

2011-04-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 6.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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