8.8

CVE-2015-5351: apache tomcat Cross-Site Request Forgery

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2015-5351GHSA-w7cg-5969-678w
Published 25-02-2016Last modified 14-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-5351 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in apache tomcat. EPSS estimates a 9.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 8.8, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
9.67%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 5
DLA-435-1DSA-3530-1DSA-3552-1DSA-3609-1MGASA-2016-0090OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10446-1

Timeline

  1. 25-02-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The (1) Manager and (2) Host Manager applications in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

9.67%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 9.67% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu2 products
  • tomcat6< 6.0.39-1ubuntu0.1
  • tomcat7< 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.6
Apache1 product
  • tomcatEOL7.0.0:beta | 7.0.2:beta | 7.0.4:beta | 7.0.5:beta | 7.0.6 | 7.0.10 | 7.0.11 | 7.0.12 | 7.0.14 | 7.0.16 | 7.0.19 | 7.0.20 | 7.0.21 | 7.0.22 | 7.0.23 | 7.0.25 | 7.0.26 | 7.0.27 | 7.0.28 | 7.0.29 | 7.0.30 | 7.0.32 | 7.0.33 | 7.0.34 | 7.0.35 | 7.0.37 | 7.0.39 | 7.0.40 | 7.0.41 | 7.0.42 | 7.0.47 | 7.0.50 | 7.0.52 | 7.0.53 | 7.0.54 | 7.0.55 | 7.0.56 | 7.0.57 | 7.0.59 | 7.0.61 | 7.0.62 | 7.0.63 | 7.0.64 | 7.0.65 | 7.0.67 | 8.0.0:rc1 | 8.0.0:rc10 | 8.0.0:rc3 | 8.0.0:rc5 | 8.0.1 | 8.0.3 | 8.0.11 | 8.0.12 | 8.0.14 | 8.0.15 | 8.0.17 | 8.0.18 | 8.0.20 | 8.0.21 | 8.0.22 | 8.0.23 | 8.0.24 | 8.0.26 | 8.0.27 | 8.0.28 | 8.0.29 | 8.0.30 | 9.0.0:milestone1
Canonical1 product
Debian1 product
Org.apache.tomcat1 product
  • tomcat< 7.0.68 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.0.31 | ≥ 9.0.0.M0, < 9.0.0.M2

5 vendors · 6 products

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