Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

CVE-2007-5342

The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files, as demonstrated by changing the (1) level, (2) directory, and (3) prefix attributes in the org.apache.juli.FileHandler handler.

EPSS: 0.052 (91.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Apache Tomcat — versions 5.5.9, 5.5.10, 5.5.11
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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