🛡️ CVE-2013-4590 — tomcat
Description
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Weakness class
CVE-2013-4590 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-2013-4590 is recorded against 1 package.
- org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (from 8.0.0-RC1 up to 8.0.0-RC10)
Timeline and source
Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 28 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
h20564.www2.hpe.com (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
advisories.mageia.org (Web)
marc.info (Web)
Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| org.apache.tomcat:tomcat | 8.0.0-RC1 | 8.0.0-RC10 |
References
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