Information disclosure in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2013-4590
Published: June 21, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU64545
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4590
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application. A remote attacker can 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.
Affected software
Apache Tomcat
OpenVMS CSWS_Java
OpenVMS CSWS_Java
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4590
Install updates from vendor's website.
Apache Tomcat - addressed in versions 6.0.39, 7.0.50, 8.0.0 RC10
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0148.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59036
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59722
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59724
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59873
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549528
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549529
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1558828
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:052
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:084
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65768
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21667883
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675886
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21677147
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21678231
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069911
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04851013
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E