Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

CVE-2014-0096

java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

EPSS: 0.069 (93.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Apache Tomcat — versions 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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