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GHSA-w227-xcfx-3pj8

Published May 2, 2022·Last modified Nov 8, 2023
Affected Components(3)
Maven logoorg.apache.tomcat/tomcat
6.0.0 – 6.0.19
Maven logoorg.apache.tomcat/tomcat
4.1.0 – 4.1.40
Maven logoorg.apache.tomcat/tomcat
5.0.0 – 5.5.28
Description

Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames via requests to /j_security_check with malformed URL encoding of passwords, related to improper error checking in the (1) MemoryRealm, (2) DataSourceRealm, and (3) JDBCRealm authentication realms, as demonstrated by a % (percent) value for the j_password parameter.

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Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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