Medium
Security advisory
When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-6794
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When a SecurityManager is configured, a web application's ability to read system properties should be controlled by the SecurityManager. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70, 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 the system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible.
osv:CVE-2016-6794
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:17.544649114Z",
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"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E",
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"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2247",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180605-0001/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4557-1/",
"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html"
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