Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-2807-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-2807-01 – Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1.2 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1.1. It contains security fixes for the Tomcat 7 component. Only users of the Tomcat 7 component in JBoss Web Server need to apply the fixes delivered in this release. Security Fix: A CSRF flaw was found in Tomcat’s the index pages for the Manager and Host Manager applications. These applications included a valid CSRF token when issuing a redirect as a result of an unauthenticated request to the root of the web application. This token could then be used by an attacker to perform a CSRF attack.

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