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Debian DSA-246-1 : tomcat - information exposure, XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15083

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The developers of tomcat discovered several problems in tomcat version 3.x. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CAN-2003-0042: A maliciously crafted request could return a directory listing even when an index.html, index.jsp, or other welcome file is present. File contents can be returned as well.
 - CAN-2003-0043: A malicious web application could read the contents of some files outside the web application via its web.xml file in spite of the presence of a security manager. The content of files that can be read as part of an XML document would be accessible.

 - CAN-2003-0044: A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in the included sample web application that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script code.

Solution

Upgrade the tomcat package.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3a-4woody.1.


The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain tomcat packages.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-246

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15083

File Name: debian_DSA-246.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0042, CVE-2003-0043, CVE-2003-0044

DSA: 246