CVE•Published 2016-02-25•Modified 2026-10-14•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2015-5351Apache · Tomcat

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 5% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery

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.

Timeline

Published 2016-02-25

Modified 2026-10-14

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB Sploitus trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag1 hosts

vuln:CVE-2015-5351

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · product + version

product:"Apache Tomcat" version:"7.0.0"

Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Tomcat"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Tomcat" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2015-5351