Description

Important: Bypass of CSRF prevention filter CVE-2012-4431

The CSRF prevention filter could be bypassed if a request was made to a protected resource without a session identifier present in the request.

Affected Apache Tomcat versions (7.0.0 - 7.0.31).

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Apache Tomcat.

References

CVE-2012-4431

Apache Tomcat 7.x vulnerabilities

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2012-4431 CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Configuration CSRF Missing Update