CVE-2012-3546 in Tomcat

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 06/14/2012
• Disclosure: 12/19/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-7074 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.02230
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3546
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3546
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-3546/