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SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-w7cg-5969-678w)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434554

Description

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

 - The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31,
 and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows
 remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token. (CVE-2015-5351)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w7cg-5969-678w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434554

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5351

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5351

BID: 83330

cwe: CWE-352