CVE-2014-0096 in Communications Policy Management

Summary

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.

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Reservation

12/03/2013

Disclosure

05/31/2014

Status

Confirmed

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
92844	Oracle Communications Policy Management Tomcat access control	264	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2014-0096
13386	Apache Tomcat Security Manager XSLT access control	264	Unproven	Official fix	CVE-2014-0096

Sources

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details