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Secunia Security Advisory 44981

Secunia Security Advisory 44981
Posted Jun 27, 2011
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A weakness has been reported in Apache Tomcat, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

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Secunia Security Advisory 44981

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Frost & Sullivan 2011 Report: Secunia Vulnerability Research
\"Frost & Sullivan believes that Secunia continues to be a major player in the vulnerability research market due to its diversity of products that provide best-in-class coverage, quality, and usability.\" This is just one of the key factors that influenced Frost & Sullivan to select Secunia over other companies.
Read the report here:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/fs_request_2011/


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TITLE:
Apache Tomcat MemoryUserDatabase Password Disclosure Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44981

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/44981/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44981

RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-27

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/44981/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
* Last Update
* Popularity
* Comments
* Criticality Level
* Impact
* Where
* Solution Status
* Operating System / Software
* CVE Reference(s)

http://secunia.com/advisories/44981/

ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA:
* Authentication Level
* Report Reliability
* Secunia PoC
* Secunia Analysis
* Systems Affected
* Approve Distribution
* Remediation Status
* Secunia CVSS Score
* CVSS

https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44981

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
* AUTOMATED SCANNING

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Apache Tomcat, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

The weakness is caused due to an error when creating users via JMX
using MemoryUserDatabase. This can lead to the created user's
password being logged in Tomcat logs if an exception occurs.

The weakness is reported in the following versions:
* Apache Tomcat versions 7.0.0 to 7.0.16
* Apache Tomcat versions 6.0.0 to 6.0.32
* Apache Tomcat versions 5.5.0 to 5.5.33

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository. Update to version 7.0.17, 6.0.33, or
5.5.34 when available.

Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Polina Genova.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.17_%28not_yet_released%29
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_6.0.33_%28not_yet_released%29
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_5.5.34_%28not_yet_released%29

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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