medium
4.3
CWE
200
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2013-4590: Infoleak

First published: Tue Feb 25 2014(Updated: )

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to 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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=8.0.0-RC1<=8.0.0-RC9
8.0.0-RC10
maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=7.0.0<7.0.50
7.0.50
maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat<6.0.39
6.0.39
redhat/tomcat<7.0.50
7.0.50
redhat/tomcat<6.0.39
6.0.39
redhat/tomcat<8.0.0
8.0.0
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc1
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc2
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc3
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc4
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc5
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc6
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc7
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc8
Tomcat=8.0.0-rc9
Debian=7.0
Tomcat<=6.0.37
Tomcat=1.1.3
Tomcat=3.0
Tomcat=3.1
Tomcat=3.1.1
Tomcat=3.2
Tomcat=3.2.1
Tomcat=3.2.2
Tomcat=3.2.2-beta2
Tomcat=3.2.3
Tomcat=3.2.4
Tomcat=3.3
Tomcat=3.3.1
Tomcat=3.3.1a
Tomcat=3.3.2
Tomcat=4
Tomcat=4.0.0
Tomcat=4.0.1
Tomcat=4.0.2
Tomcat=4.0.3
Tomcat=4.0.4
Tomcat=4.0.5
Tomcat=4.0.6
Tomcat=4.1.0
Tomcat=4.1.1
Tomcat=4.1.2
Tomcat=4.1.3
Tomcat=4.1.3-beta
Tomcat=4.1.9-beta
Tomcat=4.1.10
Tomcat=4.1.12
Tomcat=4.1.15
Tomcat=4.1.24
Tomcat=4.1.28
Tomcat=4.1.29
Tomcat=4.1.31
Tomcat=4.1.36
Tomcat=5
Tomcat=5.0.0
Tomcat=5.0.1
Tomcat=5.0.2
Tomcat=5.0.3
Tomcat=5.0.4
Tomcat=5.0.5
Tomcat=5.0.6
Tomcat=5.0.7
Tomcat=5.0.8
Tomcat=5.0.9
Tomcat=5.0.10
Tomcat=5.0.11
Tomcat=5.0.12
Tomcat=5.0.13
Tomcat=5.0.14
Tomcat=5.0.15
Tomcat=5.0.16
Tomcat=5.0.17
Tomcat=5.0.18
Tomcat=5.0.19
Tomcat=5.0.21
Tomcat=5.0.22
Tomcat=5.0.23
Tomcat=5.0.24
Tomcat=5.0.25
Tomcat=5.0.26
Tomcat=5.0.27
Tomcat=5.0.28
Tomcat=5.0.29
Tomcat=5.0.30
Tomcat=5.5.0
Tomcat=5.5.1
Tomcat=5.5.2
Tomcat=5.5.3
Tomcat=5.5.4
Tomcat=5.5.5
Tomcat=5.5.6
Tomcat=5.5.7
Tomcat=5.5.8
Tomcat=5.5.9
Tomcat=5.5.10
Tomcat=5.5.11
Tomcat=5.5.12
Tomcat=5.5.13
Tomcat=5.5.14
Tomcat=5.5.15
Tomcat=5.5.16
Tomcat=5.5.17
Tomcat=5.5.18
Tomcat=5.5.19
Tomcat=5.5.20
Tomcat=5.5.21
Tomcat=5.5.22
Tomcat=5.5.23
Tomcat=5.5.24
Tomcat=5.5.25
Tomcat=5.5.26
Tomcat=5.5.27
Tomcat=5.5.28
Tomcat=5.5.29
Tomcat=5.5.30
Tomcat=5.5.31
Tomcat=5.5.32
Tomcat=5.5.33
Tomcat=5.5.34
Tomcat=5.5.35
Tomcat=6
Tomcat=6.0
Tomcat=6.0.0
Tomcat=6.0.0-alpha
Tomcat=6.0.1
Tomcat=6.0.1-alpha
Tomcat=6.0.2
Tomcat=6.0.2-alpha
Tomcat=6.0.2-beta
Tomcat=6.0.3
Tomcat=6.0.10
Tomcat=6.0.11
Tomcat=6.0.12
Tomcat=6.0.13
Tomcat=6.0.14
Tomcat=6.0.15
Tomcat=6.0.16
Tomcat=6.0.17
Tomcat=6.0.18
Tomcat=6.0.19
Tomcat=6.0.20
Tomcat=6.0.24
Tomcat=6.0.26
Tomcat=6.0.27
Tomcat=6.0.28
Tomcat=6.0.29
Tomcat=6.0.30
Tomcat=6.0.31
Tomcat=6.0.32
Tomcat=6.0.33
Tomcat=6.0.35
Tomcat=6.0.36
Tomcat=7.0.0
Tomcat=7.0.0-beta
Tomcat=7.0.1
Tomcat=7.0.2
Tomcat=7.0.2-beta
Tomcat=7.0.3
Tomcat=7.0.4
Tomcat=7.0.4-beta
Tomcat=7.0.10
Tomcat=7.0.11
Tomcat=7.0.12
Tomcat=7.0.13
Tomcat=7.0.14
Tomcat=7.0.15
Tomcat=7.0.16
Tomcat=7.0.17
Tomcat=7.0.18
Tomcat=7.0.19
Tomcat=7.0.20
Tomcat=7.0.21
Tomcat=7.0.22
Tomcat=7.0.23
Tomcat=7.0.24
Tomcat=7.0.25
Tomcat=7.0.26
Tomcat=7.0.27
Tomcat=7.0.28
Tomcat=7.0.29
Tomcat=7.0.30
Tomcat=7.0.31
Tomcat=7.0.32
Tomcat=7.0.33
Tomcat=7.0.34
Tomcat=7.0.35
Tomcat=7.0.36
Tomcat=7.0.37
Tomcat=7.0.38
Tomcat=7.0.39
Tomcat=7.0.40
Tomcat=7.0.41
Tomcat=7.0.42
Tomcat=7.0.43
Tomcat=7.0.44
Tomcat=7.0.45
Tomcat=7.0.46
Tomcat=7.0.50
Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS)=11.2

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the severity of CVE-2013-4590?

    CVE-2013-4590 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability that allows for the exposure of sensitive internal information within Apache Tomcat.

  • How do I fix CVE-2013-4590?

    To fix CVE-2013-4590, upgrade Apache Tomcat to version 6.0.39, 7.0.50 or later, or 8.0.0-RC10 or later.

  • Which versions of Apache Tomcat are affected by CVE-2013-4590?

    CVE-2013-4590 affects Apache Tomcat versions 6.0.0 to 6.0.37, 7.0.0 to 7.0.49, and 8.0.0-RC1 to 8.0.0-RC9.

  • What types of attacks can exploit CVE-2013-4590?

    CVE-2013-4590 can be exploited by attackers through untrusted web applications that utilize specific XML documents with external entity declarations.

  • What kind of information can be disclosed due to CVE-2013-4590?

    CVE-2013-4590 can disclose sensitive internal information about the Apache Tomcat server configurations and internals.

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