GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-hhjg-g8xq-hhr3 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-02 Modified 2025-04-09 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2009-0783
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-200
Reviewed
2022-06-17

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 4.1.0, <= 4.1.39 (no fix yet) • Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.27 (no fix yet) • Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.20 → fixed in 6.0.20

Description

Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18 permits web applications to replace an XML parser used for other web applications, which allows local users to read or modify the (1) web.xml, (2) context.xml, or (3) tld files of arbitrary web applications via a crafted application that is loaded earlier than the target application.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2009-0783 Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18 permits web applications to replace an XML parser used… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

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