GLSA-200705-03 : Tomcat: Information disclosure
medium Nessus Plugin ID 25133
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VPR Score: 2.2
Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200705-03 (Tomcat: Information disclosure)Tomcat allows special characters like slash, backslash or URL-encoded backslash as a separator, while Apache does not.
Impact :
A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to the vulnerable Tomcat server, possibly resulting in a directory traversal and read access to arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Tomcat. Note that this vulnerability can only be exploited when using apache proxy modules like mod_proxy, mod_rewrite or mod_jk.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Solution
All Tomcat users should upgrade to the latest version:# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-servers/tomcat-5.5.22'
See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 25133
File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200705-03.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Published: 5/2/2007
Updated: 1/6/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
Risk Factor: Medium
VPR Score: 2.2
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:tomcat, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2007
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-0450
GLSA: 200705-03
CWE: 22