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CVE-2012-3546

medium · 4.3

org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.30, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass security-constraint checks by leveraging a previous setUserPrincipal call and then placing /j_security_check at the end of a URI.

4.3
CVSS
12.0%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2012-12-19
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
apachetomcat6.0
apachetomcat6.0.0
apachetomcat6.0.0
apachetomcat6.0.1
apachetomcat6.0.1
apachetomcat6.0.2
apachetomcat6.0.2
apachetomcat6.0.2
apachetomcat6.0.3
apachetomcat6.0.4
apachetomcat6.0.5
apachetomcat6.0.6
apachetomcat6.0.7
apachetomcat6.0.8
apachetomcat6.0.9
apachetomcat6.0.9
apachetomcat6.0.10
apachetomcat6.0.11
apachetomcat6.0.12
apachetomcat6.0.13
apachetomcat6.0.14
apachetomcat6.0.15
apachetomcat6.0.16
apachetomcat6.0.17
apachetomcat6.0.18
apachetomcat6.0.19
apachetomcat6.0.20
apachetomcat6.0.24
apachetomcat6.0.26
apachetomcat6.0.27
apachetomcat6.0.28
apachetomcat6.0.29
apachetomcat6.0.30
apachetomcat6.0.31
apachetomcat6.0.32
apachetomcat6.0.33
apachetomcat6.0.35
apachetomcat7.0.0
apachetomcat7.0.0
apachetomcat7.0.1

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References

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