GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-w227-xcfx-3pj8 Exposure of Sensitive Information in Apache Tomcat

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-02 Modified 2022-06-17 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2009-0580
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-200
Reviewed
2022-06-17

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.40 → fixed in 4.1.40 • Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 5.0.0, < 5.5.28 → fixed in 5.5.28 • Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.19 → fixed in 6.0.19

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, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames via requests to /j_security_check with malformed URL encoding of passwords, related to improper error checking in the (1) MemoryRealm, (2) DataSourceRealm, and (3) JDBCRealm authentication realms, as demonstrated by a % (percent) value for the j_password parameter.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2009-0580 Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

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