CVE record
CVE-2020-1938
Apache Tomcat Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
Apache Tomcat treats Apache JServ Protocol (AJP) connections as having higher trust than, for example, a similar HTTP connection. If such connections are available to an attacker, they can be exploited.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
critical
CVSS 9.8 · CVSS_V3
Affected packages
1
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- Apache
- Product
- Tomcat
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2022
- CISA federal remediation due date
- Mar 17, 2022
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
- CWE
- Not supplied
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
| Package | Ecosystem | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|
| org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core | maven | 9.0.31, 8.5.51, 7.0.100 |