CVE-2015-5351

high
Published 2016-02-25 · Modified 2024-02-18
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5351

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5351.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat<7.0.687.0.68
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=8.0.0,<8.0.318.0.31
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=9.0.0.M0,<9.0.0.M29.0.0.M2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachetomcat7.0.0
apache apachetomcat7.0.2
apache apachetomcat7.0.4
apache apachetomcat7.0.5
apache apachetomcat7.0.6
apache apachetomcat7.0.10
apache apachetomcat7.0.11
apache apachetomcat7.0.12
apache apachetomcat7.0.14
apache apachetomcat7.0.16
apache apachetomcat7.0.19
apache apachetomcat7.0.20
apache apachetomcat7.0.21
apache apachetomcat7.0.22
apache apachetomcat7.0.23
apache apachetomcat7.0.25
apache apachetomcat7.0.26
apache apachetomcat7.0.27
apache apachetomcat7.0.28
apache apachetomcat7.0.29
apache apachetomcat7.0.30
apache apachetomcat7.0.32
apache apachetomcat7.0.33
apache apachetomcat7.0.34
apache apachetomcat7.0.35
apache apachetomcat7.0.37
apache apachetomcat7.0.39
apache apachetomcat7.0.40
apache apachetomcat7.0.41
apache apachetomcat7.0.42
apache apachetomcat7.0.47
apache apachetomcat7.0.50
apache apachetomcat7.0.52
apache apachetomcat7.0.53
apache apachetomcat7.0.54
apache apachetomcat7.0.55
apache apachetomcat7.0.56
apache apachetomcat7.0.57
apache apachetomcat7.0.59
apache apachetomcat7.0.61
apache apachetomcat7.0.62
apache apachetomcat7.0.63
apache apachetomcat7.0.64
apache apachetomcat7.0.65
apache apachetomcat7.0.67
apache apachetomcat8.0.0
apache apachetomcat8.0.1
apache apachetomcat8.0.3
apache apachetomcat8.0.11
apache apachetomcat8.0.12
apache apachetomcat8.0.14
apache apachetomcat8.0.15
apache apachetomcat8.0.17
apache apachetomcat8.0.18
apache apachetomcat8.0.20
apache apachetomcat8.0.21
apache apachetomcat8.0.22
apache apachetomcat8.0.23
apache apachetomcat8.0.24
apache apachetomcat8.0.26
apache apachetomcat8.0.27
apache apachetomcat8.0.28
apache apachetomcat8.0.29
apache apachetomcat8.0.30
apache apachetomcat9.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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