CVE-2012-3546

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
2.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 15% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: December 19, 2012 (4894 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-264

Affected Products

apache tomcat

References

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