Incomplete Fix for CVE-2011-1088 Allows Bypass of Access Restrictions in Apache Tomcat 7.x

Incomplete Fix for CVE-2011-1088 Allows Bypass of Access Restrictions in Apache Tomcat 7.x

CVE-2011-1419 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.11, when web.xml has no security constraints, does not follow ServletSecurity annotations, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a web application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1088.

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