CVE-2016-0762
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 10, 2017
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Dec 16, 2015
Description
The Realm implementations in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 did not process the supplied password if the supplied user name did not exist. This made a timing attack possible to determine valid user names. Note that the default configuration includes the LockOutRealm which makes exploitation of this vulnerability harder.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Apache TomcatApache Software Foundation |
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References
- 1037144vdb-entry
- [announce] 20161027 [SECURITY] CVE-2016-0762 Apache Tomcat Realm Timing Attackmailing-list
- RHSA-2017:2247vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0457vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0455vendor-advisory
- 93939vdb-entry
- DSA-3720vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0456vendor-advisory
- [tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [25/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190319 svn commit: r1855831 [23/30] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [22/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [24/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190325 svn commit: r1856174 [21/29] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/ xdocs/stylesheets/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190413 svn commit: r1857494 [16/20] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190413 svn commit: r1857494 [15/20] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: ./ docs/ xdocs/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190415 svn commit: r1857582 [17/22] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/stylesheets/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20190415 svn commit: r1857582 [16/22] - in /tomcat/site/trunk: docs/ xdocs/stylesheets/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20200203 svn commit: r1873527 [23/30] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [27/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/mailing-list
- [tomcat-dev] 20200213 svn commit: r1873980 [26/34] - /tomcat/site/trunk/docs/mailing-list
- USN-4557-1vendor-advisory
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180605-0001/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
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