CVE-2017-5664Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Software Foundation Apache Tomcat

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
10.8%
top 6.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 6
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The error page mechanism of the Java Servlet Specification requires that, when an error occurs and an error page is configured for the error that occurred, the original request and response are forwarded to the error page. This means that the request is presented to the error page with the original HTTP method. If the error page is a static file, expected behaviour is to serve content of the file as if processing a GET request, regardless of the actual HTTP method. The Default Servlet in Apache

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDapache/tomcat135 versions+134

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Apache Tomcat2022-05-13
GHSA
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Apache Tomcat2022-05-13
OSV
tomcat7, tomcat8 vulnerabilities2018-01-08
CVEList
CVE-2017-5664: The error page mechanism of the Java Servlet Specification requires that, when an error occurs and an error page is configured for the error that occu2017-06-06
OSV
CVE-2017-5664: The error page mechanism of the Java Servlet Specification requires that, when an error occurs and an error page is configured for the error that occu2017-06-06

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Tomcat vulnerabilities2018-01-08
Red Hat
tomcat: Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism2017-06-06
Debian
CVE-2017-5664: tomcat9 - The error page mechanism of the Java Servlet Specification requires that, when a...2017
Apache
Apache tomcat: CVE-2017-5664

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5664 tomcat: Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism [fedora-all]2017-06-06
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5664 tomcat: Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism2017-06-06
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5664 tomcat: Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism [epel-6]2017-06-06
CVE-2017-5664 — HIGH severity | cvebase