🛡️ CVE-2009-0580 — tomcat
Description
Exposure of Sensitive Information in Apache Tomcat
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.
Weakness class
CVE-2009-0580 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.
Affected software
CVE-2009-0580 is recorded against 1 package.
- org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (from 6.0.0 up to 6.0.19)
Timeline and source
Published on 2 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
marc.info (Web)
marc.info (Web)
marc.info (Web)
marc.info (Web)
oval.cisecurity.org (Web)
oval.cisecurity.org (Web)
oval.cisecurity.org (Web)
svn.apache.org (Web)
svn.apache.org (Web)
svn.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)
Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| org.apache.tomcat:tomcat | 6.0.0 | 6.0.19 |
References
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