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Apache Tomcat XSS vulnerability


Arrow  SecurityAlert : 4098
Arrow  CVE : CVE-2008-1232
Arrow  CWE : CWE-79
Arrow  SecurityRisk : Low  Security Risk Low  (About)
Arrow  Remote Exploit : Yes
Arrow  Local Exploit : No
Arrow  Victim interaction required : Yes
Arrow  Exploit Available : Yes
Arrow  Credit : Konstantin Kolinko
Arrow  Published : 04.08.2008

Arrow  Affected Software : Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.0
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.1
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.10
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.12
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.15
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.2
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.24
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.28
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.3
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.31
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.32
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.34
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.36
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 4.1.37
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.0
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.1
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.10
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.11
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.12
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.13
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.14
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.15
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.16
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.17
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.18
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.19
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.2
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.20
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.21
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.22
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.23
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.24
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.25
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.0
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.1
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.10
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.11
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.12
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.13
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.14
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.15
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 5.5.26
Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat, 6.0.16



Arrow  Advisory Content :  

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Hash: SHA1

CVE-2008-1232: Apache Tomcat XSS vulnerability

Severity: Low

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Tomcat 4.1.0 to 4.1.37
Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.26
Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.16
The unsupported Tomcat 3.x, 4.0.x and 5.0.x versions may be also affected

Description:
The message argument of HttpServletResponse.sendError() call is not only
displayed on the error page, but is also used for the reason-phrase of
HTTP
response. This may include characters that are illegal in HTTP headers. It
is possible for a specially crafted message to result in arbitrary content
being injected into the HTTP response. For a successful XSS attack,
unfiltered user supplied data must be included in the message argument.

Mitigation:
6.0.x users should upgrade to 6.0.18
5.5.x users should obtain the latest source from svn or apply this patch
which will be included from 5.5.27
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=680947&view=rev

4.1.x users should obtain the latest source from svn or apply this patch
which will be included from 4.1.38
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=680947&view=rev (connector only)
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=680948&view=rev

Example:
<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%
~ // some unicode characters, that result in CRLF being printed
~ final String CRLF = "\u010D\u010A";

~ final String payload = CRLF + CRLF + "<script
type='text/javascript'>document.write('Hi,
there!')</script><div
style='display:none'>";
~ final String message = "Authorization is required to access " +
payload;
~ response.sendError(403, message);
%>

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Konstantin Kolinko.

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

Mark Thomas
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Arrow  References :

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30496
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495021/100/0/threaded
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html




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