🛡️ CVE-2009-0580 — tomcat

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-02
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 6.0.0 6.0.19

References

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