FreeBSD : tomcat -- XSS vulnerability in sample applications (ab2575d6-39f0-11dc-b8cc-000fea449b8a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25785

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The Apache Project reports :

The JSP and Servlet included in the sample application within the Tomcat documentation webapp did not escape user provided data before including it in the output. This enabled a XSS attack. These pages have been simplified not to use any user provided data in the output.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bd0bd9e6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25785

File Name: freebsd_pkg_ab2575d639f011dcb8cc000fea449b8a.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 7/27/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:apache-tomcat, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:jakarta-tomcat, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:tomcat, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1355

BID: 24058