CVE-2017-5648
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…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 13.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.2% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (9 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.
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2247 (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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