cve/2016/CVE-2016-6796.md

### [CVE-2016-6796](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6796)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Apache%20Tomcat&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=Sandbox%20escape&color=brighgreen)

### Description

A malicious web application running on Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.