bugtraq - [SECURITY] CVE-2011-0013 Apache Tomcat Manager XSS vulnerability

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Message-ID: <4D4CB07E.9010206@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:05:50 +0000
From: Mark Thomas <markt@...che.org>
To: Tomcat Users List <users@...cat.apache.org>
Cc: Tomcat Developers List <dev@...cat.apache.org>,
	announce@...cat.apache.org, announce@...che.org,
	full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [SECURITY] CVE-2011-0013 Apache Tomcat Manager XSS vulnerability

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CVE-2011-0013 Apache Tomcat Manager XSS vulnerability

Severity: Low

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
- - Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.5
- - Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.29
- - Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.31
- - Earlier, unsupported versions may also be affected

Description:
The HTML Manager interface displayed web applciation provided data, such
as display names, without filtering. A malicious web application could
trigger script execution by an administartive user when viewing the
manager pages.

Example:
<display-name>&lt;script&gt;alert('hi');&lt;/script&gt;</display-name>

Mitigation:
Users of affected versions should apply one of the following mitigations:
- - Upgrade to a Tomcat version where this issue is fixed
- - Undeploy untrusted web applications
- - Remove the Manager application

Credit:
The issue was identified by the Tomcat security team.

References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
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