cve/2016/CVE-2016-5018.md

CVE-2016-5018

Description

In 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 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

POC

Reference

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155873/Tomcat-9.0.0.M1-Sandbox-Escape.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon