-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CVE-2010-1157: Apache Tomcat information disclosure vulnerability Severity: Low Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: - - Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.26 - - Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.29 Note: The unsupported Tomcat 3.x, 4.x and 5.0.x versions may also be affected. Description: The "WWW-Authenticate" header for BASIC and DIGEST authentication includes a realm name. If a <realm-name> element is specified for the application in web.xml it will be used. However, a <realm-name> is not specified then Tomcat will generate one using the code snippet: request.getServerName() + ":" + request.getServerPort() In some circumstances this can expose the local hostname or IP address of the machine running Tomcat. Example: GET /application/j_security_check HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="tomcat01:8080" Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 954 Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:18:11 GMT Connection: close Mitigation: Administrators of web applications that use BASIC or DIGEST authentication are recommended to set an appropriate realm name in the web application's web.xml file. Alternatively, the following patches may be used to change the default realm to "Authentication required" (without the quotes): - - Tomcat 6.0.x: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=936540 - - Tomcat 5.5.x: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=936541 These patches will be included in the next releases of Tomcat 5.5.x and Tomcat 6.0.x. No release date has been set for the next Tomcat 5.5.x and Tomcat 6.0.x releases. Credit: This issue was discovered by Deniz Cevik. References: http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html The Apache Tomcat Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJLz3o5AAoJEBDAHFovYFnn7NgP/jyjnqK98FfruhzL0eB/b748 7EYP8k//kbmq8SIYyDkHkmlGfDNE+epxLudgSLbwg8QJdNG50JHwjTzAcclPCyu6 jx3NuJVKxn8KloD3rmxhrIItLG/yQ50JP3tnNO3xC4pS4j8dzdrTS2lFPXxcna6e o9rMUwPLTEsLvNhd93sUIpdXuLhG9TP7dOeAD737ybvmRcz612igGyyT3hVUeGsK TvJ+uzZTLJi+Wz0UMRdseqsgp1OW2DeMyao67bPaUrbX9EfLA+yUfXV6TRByT4C5 S5BB3mTz8WBgWkscCmKB0mqmtiPfv7PxlRDfMyPAkFhezPAnL5UD4fSZ3Aes8rTO IF6CM/lWXm+eMECVwuIh7RdiPJtpe/1ZTQ2EtAQ/JZOIoDX2sKNF92opGeNiZPp9 P78tfksI23tLNJeDcJmL1a2L1yP8pcvAnd6AhYwZPc+LoZBKOsqEMMDU9CmbT3LY 2Fyn8h5yV9Fql9TR9J87aB9BDcQ5vqtdJ17qO20ur54SockI/oNi45tpDf76sJQB 0iOVY1MDu9J4c3xvtmWrdsAZF8VFDhW8nXdKOATh2cVQg/P4aELW2eyGUbiL5hLZ EWgiZRQWm815MqEwikbztMON4OipensBx1wNuKvj2VKs3VK8tkSuXigViOCTYo+c mm73gFAt6VWTF5sbfTuA =mtgX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----