National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-5063

Overview

The HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.34, 6.x before 6.0.33, and 7.x before 7.0.12 does not check realm values, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the availability of a protection space with weaker authentication or authorization requirements, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1184.

Impact

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1159309

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1159309

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1158180

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1158180

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1087655

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1087655

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1845

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1845.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2401

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2401

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0208

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00006.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:0155

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00002.html