(Sun Issues Fix for Solaris) Apache Tomcat Input Validation Hole in Processing Accept-Language Header Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020416 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1020416
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2007-1358
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jul 2 2008
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Impact:
Disclosure of authentication information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 4.0.0 to 4.0.6, 4.1.0 to 4.1.34, 5.0.0 to 5.0.30, 5.5.0 to 5.5.20, 6.0.0 to 6.0.5
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Apache Tomcat. A remote user can conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
The server may not not properly filter HTML code from user-supplied input in the 'Accept-Language' header before displaying the input. A remote user can create cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the target user's browser in certain cases. The code will originate from the site running the Tomcat software and will run in the security context of that site. As a result, the code will be able to access the target user's cookies (including authentication cookies), if any, associated with the site, access data recently submitted by the target user via web form to the site, or take actions on the site acting as the target user.
This can be exploited via "older" versions of the Flash player, where Flash files can make requests with arbitrary header values.
Masato Anzai and Toshiharu Sugiyama reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can access the target user's cookies (including authentication cookies), if any, associated with the site running the Tomcat software, access data recently submitted by the target user via web form to the site, or take actions on the site acting as the target user.
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Solution:
Sun has issued a fix for Tomcat on Solaris.
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 122911-12 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 122912-12 or later
A fix for Solaris 9 is pending.
The Sun advisory is available at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-239312-1
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Vendor URL: tomcat.apache.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Input validation error
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Underlying OS:
UNIX (Solaris - SunOS)
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Message History:
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