CVE-2022-23181 (GCVE-0-2022-23181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 03:36
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Title
Local privilege escalation with FileStore
Summary
The fix for bug CVE-2020-9484 introduced a time of check, time of use vulnerability into Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8, 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14, 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 and 8.5.55 to 8.5.73 that allowed a local attacker to perform actions with the privileges of the user that the Tomcat process is using. This issue is only exploitable when Tomcat is configured to persist sessions using the FileStore.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat Affected: Apache Tomcat 10.1 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8
Affected: Apache Tomcat 10.0 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14
Affected: Apache Tomcat 9 9.0.35 to 9.0.56
Affected: Apache Tomcat 8 8.5.55 to 8.5.73
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