Information Exposure Affecting tomcat package, versions [,6.0.39)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382389
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Feb 2014

CVE-2013-4590  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 6.0.39 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

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