CVE-2016-0762: Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy

August 10, 2017 (updated April 15, 2019)

The Realm implementations in Apache Tomcat does not process the supplied password if the supplied user name did not exist which makes it possible to use a timing attack to determine valid user names.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/93939
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037144
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0762

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