[SECURITY] CVE-2011-1088 Apache Tomcat security constraint bypass

[Mark Thomas <markt () apache org>]

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CVE-2011-1088 Apache Tomcat security constraint bypass

Severity: Important

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
- - Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.10
- - Earlier versions are not affected

Description:
When a web application was started, @ServletSecurity annotations were
ignored. This meant that some areas of the application may not have been
protected as expected.

Mitigation:
Users of affected versions should apply one of the following mitigations:
- - Upgrade to a Tomcat version where this issue is fixed
- - Define security constraints via an alternative mechanism such as web.xml

Credit:
This issue was reported publicly on the Tomcat users mailing list.
The Apache Tomcat security requests that security vulnerability reports
are made privately to security () tomcat apache org in the first instance.

References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
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