GLSA-200705-03 : Tomcat: Information disclosure

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25133

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'

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

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:tomcat

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

CWE: 22

GLSA: 200705-03

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