CVE-2012-3546 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-12/0044.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00089.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00090.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00037.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0004.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0005.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0146.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0147.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0151.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0157.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0158.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0162.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0163.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0164.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0191.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0192.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0193.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0194.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0195.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0196.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0197.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0198.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0221.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0235.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0623.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0640.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0641.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0642.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51984 http://secunia.com/advisories/52054 http://secunia.com/advisories/57126 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase.java?r1=1377892&r2=1377891&pathrev=1377892 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/webapps/docs/changelog.xml?r1=1377892&r2=1377891&pathrev=1377892 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1377892 http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56812 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027833 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1685-1 https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03748878 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A19305