Bypassing Security-Constraint Checks in Apache Tomcat

CVE-2012-3546 · MEDIUM Severity

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

org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.30, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass security-constraint checks by leveraging a previous setUserPrincipal call and then placing /j_security_check at the end of a URI.

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