Information disclosure in Apache Tomcat JK ISAPI Connector - CVE-2007-1860

 

Information disclosure in Apache Tomcat JK ISAPI Connector - CVE-2007-1860

Published: October 7, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU798
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-1860
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to obtain potentially sensitive information  on the target sytem.
The weakness is caused by access control flaw that may occur in case of repeated decoding of request URL by multiple components (firewalls, caches, proxies and Tomcat) and allows attacker to read the responses to valid user's requests.
Succcessful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure on the vulnerable system.

Affected software

Apache Tomcat JK ISAPI Connector
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2007-1860

Update to version 1.2.23.


External References

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