While investigating bug 60718, it was noticed that some calls to application listeners in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M17, 8.5.0 to…

Description

While investigating bug 60718, it was noticed that some calls to application listeners in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M17, 8.5.0 to 8.5.11, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.41, and 7.0.0 to 7.0.75 did not use the appropriate facade object. When running an untrusted application under a SecurityManager, it was therefore possible for that untrusted application to retain a reference to the request or response object and thereby access and/or modify information associated with another web application.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

13.2% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (3 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: Critical 9.1.

Weakness

• Information Disclosure
• CWE-668 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-668 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tomcat

  • affected 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M17
  • affected 8.5.0 to 8.5.11
  • affected 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.41
  • affected 7.0.0 to 7.0.75

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreGHSA-3vx3-xf6q-r5xp (opens in a new tab)
• Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaGHSA-3vx3-xf6q-r5xp (opens in a new tab)

References (21)

• [users] 20170410 [SECURITY] CVE-2017-5648 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• GLSA-201705-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180614-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 97530 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1801 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3843 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 1038220 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• DSA-3842 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1809 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1802 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [25/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [22/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [24/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190413 svn commit: r1857494 [17/20] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190413 svn commit: r1857494 [16/20] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190415 svn commit: r1857582 [17/22] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/stylesheets/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20190415 svn commit: r1857582 [19/22] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/stylesheets/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20200203 svn commit: r1873527 [25/30] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [27/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [29/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20200720 CVE-2020-13932 Apache ActiveMQ Artemis - Remote XSS in Web console Diagram Plugin (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-3vx3-xf6q-r5xp (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 15 Oct 2026, 15:56 UTC.