CVE-2013-2051

low
Published 2013-07-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.6
VIR risk
2.6

Description

The Tomcat 6 DIGEST authentication functionality as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by performing a replay attack after a nonce becomes stale. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5887.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959047

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0869.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel6.0affected

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.