Vulnerability · CVE-2017-5648
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, an…
Published Apr 17, 2017 · catalog updated Oct 15, 2026 · the affected product
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CVE-2017-5648 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 13.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run the affected product.
Gaps on this record
- No plain product name is stored. The page cannot tell you which product to check.
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- Critical9.1
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 13.23%
- Remediation
- Advisory link
- Affected products
- cpe apache/tomcat
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.
Are you affected?
Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.
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- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.0
- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.1
- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.2
- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.3
- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.4
- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.5
- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.6
- cpe apache/tomcat7.0.7
- cpe apache/tomcat8.0.0
- cpe apache/tomcat8.5.0
- cpe apache/tomcat9.0.0
How to fix CVE-2017-5648
Recommended remediation
A patch or advisory reference is linked. Open the original publisher for availability by product version.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2017-5648 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 13.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run the affected product.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. EPSS 13.23%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Apr 17, 2017 · NIST NVD
Detected
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 obj
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST NVD
Updated
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 obj
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2017-5648
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2017-5648
30-day exploitation probability 13.2%
first.org - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2017-5648
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 Securi
nvd.nist.gov
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 16, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.