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Date: Tue Jun 03 2008 - 10:24:05 CDT

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TITLE:
Apache Tomcat Host Manager "name" Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30500

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30500/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Apache Tomcat 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/3571/
Apache Tomcat 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/13828/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Tomcat, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the "name" parameter to host-manager/html/add is not
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a logged in
user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.5.9 through 5.5.26 and
6.0.0 to 6.0.16.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repositories.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Petr Splichal, RedHat.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=121244319501278&w=2

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