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SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (GHSA-v646-rx6w-r3qq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419104

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875
 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in
 the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's
 outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an
 "httpoxy" issue. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked
 as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability. (CVE-2016-5388)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v646-rx6w-r3qq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419104

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.78

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5388

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5388

BID: 91818

cwe: CWE-284