Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been acknowledged in Apache Geronimo, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Apache Geronimo WebDAV Arbitrary File Content Disclosure
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27481
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27481/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Apache Geronimo 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/15811/
Apache Geronimo 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6833/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been acknowledged in Apache Geronimo, which can
be exploited by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive
information.
For more information:
SA27398
The vulnerability affects all versions of Geronimo.
SOLUTION:
This will reportedly be fixed in the next release of Geronimo (2.0.3
and/or 2.1).
The vendor recommends disabling write access to the Webdav Servlet
and to only grant access to the Webdav servlet to trusted users.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://geronimo.apache.org/2007/10/18/potential-vulnerability-in-apache-tomcat-webdav-servlet.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27398:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27398/
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