Description

Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.10 does not follow ServletSecurity annotations, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a web application.

Mitigation

We recommend upgrading to a version of this component that is not vulnerable to this specific issue. While this CVE is partially fixed in version 7.0.10, the vulnerability is ultimately fixed in 7.0.11 with CVE-2011-1419.

Related links:

• http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-1088

• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1088