(Apple Issues Fix for Mac OS X) Tomcat Single Quote Cookie Processing Bug Lets Remote Users Obtain Session Information
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020401 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1020401
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2007-3382
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jul 1 2008
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Impact:
Disclosure of system information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 3.3 to 3.3.2, 4.1.0 to 4.1.36, 5.0.0 to 5.0.30, 5.5.0 to 5.5.24, 6.0.0 to 6.0.13
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Tomcat. A remote user can obtain session information.
The software incorrectly interprets a single quote (') character in a cookie value as a delimiter. A remote user may be able to exploit this to hijack sessions.
A demonstration exploit URL is provided:
http://[target]:8080/servlets-examples/servlet/CookieExample?cookiename=BLOCKER&cookievalue=%5C%22A%3D%27%3B+Expires%3DThu%2C+1+Jan+2009+00%3A00%3A01+UTC%3B+Path%3D%2Fservlets-examples%2Fservlet+%3B
Tomasz Kuczynski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and CERT/CC reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can may be able to hijack sessions.
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Solution:
Apple has issued a fix for Mac OS X (Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X 10.5.4), which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads at:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163
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Vendor URL: tomcat.apache.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS:
UNIX (OS X)
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Message History:
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