CVE-2016-6794: vulnerability in Apache Tomcat
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 7.2%
When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache TomcatRelated CVEs — Apache Tomcat
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2017-12617HIGHCVE-2017-12617EPSS 100.0%KEVCVE-2025-24813CRITICALApache Tomcat: Potential RCE and/or information disclosure and/or information corruption with partial PUTEPSS 99.9%KEVCVE-2017-12615HIGHCVE-2017-12615EPSS 99.7%KEVCVE-2026-34486HIGHApache Tomcat: Fix for CVE-2026-29146 allowed bypass of EncryptInterceptorEPSS 98.5%KEVCVE-2016-8735CRITICALCVE-2016-8735EPSS 90.3%KEVCVE-2018-11784—CVE-2018-11784EPSS 97.7%
References
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2247https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/09d2f2c65ac4ff5da42f15dc2b0f78b655e50f1a42e8a9784134a9eb%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/343558d982879bf88ec20dbf707f8c11255f8e219e81d45c4f8d0551%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6af47120905aa7d8fe12f42e8ff2284fb338ba141d3b77b8c7cb61b3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E