Bug 752371 (CVE-2011-3376)

Summary:	CVE-2011-3376 tomcat: Privilege escalation via the Manager application
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	djorm, ivan.afonichev, java-sig-commits
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-09 10:38:14 UTC

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Servlets, implementing the functionality of the Manager application, shipped with Apache Tomcat, restricted privileges of a Context (web application) to access the Application Manager functionality. A specially-crafted web application could use this flaw to use the functionality of the Application Manager (obtain information about existing web applications or deploy new web applications).

References:
[1] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Nov/103
[2] http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
[3] http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

Relevant upstream patch:
[4] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1176588

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-09 10:40:14 UTC

This issue has been corrected in the following tomcat package updates:
1) tomcat-7.0.22-1.fc15 for Fedora 15,
2) tomcat-7.0.22-1.fc16 for Fedora 16.

Comment 2 David Jorm 2012-01-04 11:33:46 UTC

Statement:

Not affected. This flaw did not affect any version of Tomcat shipped in Red Hat products. This flaw only affected Tomcat versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.21.