When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.11, 8.5.0 to 8.5.33 and 7.0.23 to 7.0.90 returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-11784 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7 | RHSA-2019:0131 | 2019-01-22 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 | RHSA-2018:2867 | 2018-10-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 | RHSA-2019:0131 | 2019-01-22 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 on RHEL 6 (jws5-tomcat) | RHSA-2018:2868 | 2018-10-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 on RHEL 7 (jws5-tomcat) | RHSA-2018:2868 | 2018-10-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 | RHSA-2019:0130 | 2019-01-22 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-java-common-tomcat | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | springboot | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | tomcat | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | tomcat | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | tomcat7 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | tomcat6 | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 | tomcat | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 | tomcat | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 | jbossweb | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 | tomcat | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | tomcat | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | tomcat6 | Not affected |
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