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CVE-2012-3546

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…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ApacheTomcat
Versions 6.0, 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4

Weakness classification

CWE-264

References