GHSA-w227-xcfx-3pj8Medium

Exposure of Sensitive Information in Apache Tomcat

Published
May 2, 2022
Last Modified
February 13, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames via requests to /j_security_check with malformed URL encoding of passwords, related to improper error checking in the (1) MemoryRealm, (2) DataSourceRealm, and (3) JDBCRealm authentication realms, as demonstrated by a % (percent) value for the j_password parameter.

🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.40
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 5.0.0, < 5.5.28
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.19

🔗 References (36)