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XSS in Tomcat send mail example

SecurityAlert : 2918

CVE : CVE-2007-3383

SecurityRisk : Low Security Risk Low

(About)

Remote Exploit : Yes

Local Exploit : No

Exploit Given : Yes

Credit : Mark Thomas

Published : 25.07.2007

Affected Software :

Apache, Tomcat, 4.0.0
Apache, Tomcat, 4.0.1
Apache, Tomcat, 4.0.2
Apache, Tomcat, 4.0.3
Apache, Tomcat, 4.0.4
Apache, Tomcat, 4.0.5
Apache, Tomcat, 4.0.6
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.0
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.1
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.10
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.15
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.2
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.24
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.28
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.3
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.31
Apache, Tomcat, 4.1.36

Advisory Text :

CVE-2007-3383: XSS in Tomcat send mail example

Severity:
Low (Cross-site scripting)

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
4.0.0 to 4.0.6
4.1.0 to 4.1.36

Description:
When reporting error messages, the SendMailServlet does not filter
user supplied data before display. This enables an XSS attack.

Mitigation:
Undeploy the examples web application.

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Tomasz Kuczynski, Poznan Supercomputing
and Networking Center, who worked with the CERT/CC to report the
vulnerability.

Example:
On this page
http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/mail/sendmail.jsp
enter the following text
<script>alert('XSS reflected')</script>
in the From field and click Send.

References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html

Mark Thomas

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