When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. In Apache Tomcat 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, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.
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History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2017-08-10T16:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T04:24:06.893Z

Reserved: 2016-08-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6794

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-10T16:29:00.530

Modified: 2023-12-08T16:41:18.860

Link: CVE-2016-6794

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-6794 - Bugzilla