CVE-2017-5648 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in Apache Tomcat

What is CVE-2017-5648?

CVE-2017-5648 is a critical vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 17 Apr 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

While investigating bug 60718, it was noticed that some calls to application listeners in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M17, 8.5.0 to 8.5.11, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.41, and 7.0.0 to 7.0.75 did not use the appropriate facade object. When running an untrusted application under a SecurityManager, it was therefore possible for that untrusted application to retain a reference to the request or response object and thereby access and/or modify information associated with another web application.

Weakness: CWE-668

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5648?

16 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core and org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Tomcat.

How do I fix CVE-2017-5648?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core to a fixed version for your release line: 7.0.76, 8.0.42, 8.5.13 or 9.0.0.M18.

Is CVE-2017-5648 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5648 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat

• CVE-2025-24813 Apache Tomcat Path Equivalence Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-8735 Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-12617 Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2017-12615 Apache Tomcat on Windows Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2026-34486 Apache Tomcat Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data Exploited High 7.5

All Apache Tomcat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3vx3-xf6q-r5xp, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5648.