The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish…

Description

The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

9.7% · top 4.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcatGHSA-w7cg-5969-678w (opens in a new tab)

References (36)

• 83330 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135882/Apache-Tomcat-CSRF-Token-Leak.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-201705-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720658 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2016:0865 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-3024-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2016:0769 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• DSA-3530 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20160222 [SECURITY] CVE-2015-5351 Apache Tomcat CSRF token leak (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:1089 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:1087 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720655 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1035069 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa118 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150442 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720663 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:2807 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:1088 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180531-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:2808 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720661 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2016:0822 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:2599 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3609 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720652 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158626 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://softwaresupport.hpe.com/document/-/facetsearch/document/KM02978021 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-3552 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1720660 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [27/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-w7cg-5969-678w (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 14 Oct 2026, 21:31 UTC.