Bug 1390520 (CVE-2016-6794) - CVE-2016-6794 tomcat: system property disclosure
Summary: CVE-2016-6794 tomcat: system property disclosure
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-6794
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1390531 1390532 1390533 1393222 1393223
Blocks: 1376651 1390534 1415638 1428325
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Reported: 2016-11-01 09:56 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 when a SecurityManager was configured, Tomcat's system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 10:52:44 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-2017:2247 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 09:56:47 UTC 
The following flaw was found in Tomcat:

When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. Tomcat's system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.

Upstream patches:

6.0.47: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754733
7.0.72: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754728
8.5.5: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754726
8.0.37: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1754727

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 10:23:22 UTC 
Created tomcat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390532]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1390533]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-07 19:09:06 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 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-07 19:13:40 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 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-07 19:18:11 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 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 23:19:20 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 10 Joshua Padman 2019-05-16 03:45:27 UTC 
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:
 * Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3
 * Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6
 * Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5
 * Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization & Services 6
 * Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6

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