Bug 1390525 (CVE-2016-5018) - CVE-2016-5018 tomcat: security manager bypass via IntrospectHelper utility function
Summary: CVE-2016-5018 tomcat: security manager bypass via IntrospectHelper utility fu...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-5018
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1390531 1390532 1390533 1393225 1393226
Blocks: 1390534 1415638 1428325 1461888
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Reported: 2016-11-01 10:02 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-10-27 10:52 UTC (History)
62 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tomcat 6.0.47, tomcat 7.0.72, tomcat 8.5.5, tomcat 8.0.37
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It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 10:52:55 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0455 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.0 security and enhancement update 2017-03-08 00:06:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0456 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.0 security and enhancement update 2017-03-08 00:06:06 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0457 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server security and enhancement update 2017-03-08 00:05:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1548 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16 update on RHEL 7 2017-06-20 20:03:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1549 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16 update on RHEL 6 2017-06-20 20:00:34 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1550 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16 update on RHEL 5 2017-06-20 19:57:08 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1551 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update 2017-06-20 19:46:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1552 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-06-20 20:28:16 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2247 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: tomcat security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 19:43:19 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2016-11-01 10:02:47 UTC 
The following flaw was found in Tomcat:

A malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

Upstream patches:

6.0.47: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754904
7.0.72: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754902
8.5.5: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754900
8.0.37: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754901

External References:

https://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_6.0.47
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.72
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_8.5.5_and_8.0.37
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2016-11-01 10:24:15 UTC 
Created tomcat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390532]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1390533]
Comment 6 Andrej Nemec 2016-12-06 08:38:55 UTC 
Upstream posted additional patches:

6.0.x: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1761718
7.0.x: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1760309
8.5.x: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1760305
8.0.x: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1760307
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-07 19:09:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.0

Via RHSA-2017:0457 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-07 19:14:04 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0456 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-07 19:18:35 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0455 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-20 15:47:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4

Via RHSA-2017:1551 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1551.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-20 16:08:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5

Via RHSA-2017:1550 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1550
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-20 16:09:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:1549 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1549
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-20 16:10:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:1548 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1548
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-20 16:29:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:1552 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1552
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 23:19:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2247 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2247
Comment 16 Joshua Padman 2019-05-16 03:11:55 UTC 
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:
 * Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 5

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.
Comment 17 Joshua Padman 2019-05-16 03:15:02 UTC 
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:
 * Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5
 * Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization & Services 6
 * Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7
 * Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.
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