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 Tomcat documentation XSS vulnerabilities

Monday, 21 May 2007

CVE-2007-1355: Tomcat documentation XSS vulnerabilities

Severity:
Moderate (Cross-site scripting)

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Tomcat 4.0.0 to 4.0.6
Tomcat 4.1.0 to 4.1.36
Tomcat 5.0.0 to 5.0.30
Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.23
Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.10

Description:
The Tomcat documentation web application includes a sample application
that contains multiple XSS vulnerabilities.

Mitigation:
Undeploy the Tomcat documentation web application.

Credit:
These issues were discovered by Ferruh Mavituna.

Example:
http://server/tomcat-docs/appdev/sample/web/hello.jsp?test=<script>alert(document.domain)</script>

References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/May/0297.html



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