From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 03:52:01 CDT

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TITLE:
Sesame Unauthorised User Repository Access Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11497

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11497/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Exposure of system information, Exposure of
sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sesame 1.0.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Sesame, which can be exploited
by malicious, anonymous users to access other user's repositories.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
servlets. The issue reportedly surfaced on Tomcat 5, which reuses
threads to handle requests.

Successful exploitation grants a user full access to the repository
of a logged in user.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.1.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46509

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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