Bug 457934 (CVE-2008-2370)

Summary:	CVE-2008-2370 tomcat RequestDispatcher information disclosure vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marc Schoenefeld <mschoene>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	djorm, kreilly
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	458088, 458089, 458097, 458099, 458100, 458443, 458444, 458445, 458634, 458635, 460125, 460126, 460127, 460131, 460132, 470238, 470239
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Description Marc Schoenefeld 2008-08-05 16:03:59 UTC

When using a RequestDispatcher the target path was normalised before the
query string was removed. A request that included a specially crafted
request parameter could be used to access content that would otherwise be
protected by a security constraint or by locating it in under the WEB-INF
directory.

Comment 1 Marc Schoenefeld 2008-08-05 16:05:19 UTC

Patch for Tomcat 5.5.x available upstream:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=680949&view=rev

Comment 2 Marc Schoenefeld 2008-08-05 16:07:41 UTC

Example:

For a page that contains:
<%
pageContext.forward("/page2.jsp?somepar=someval&par="+request.getParameter("blah"));
%>
an attacker can use:
http://host/page.jsp?blah=/../WEB-INF/web.xml

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-09-05 17:10:43 UTC

tomcat6-6.0.18-1.1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat6-6.0.18-1.1.fc9

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:17:10 UTC

tomcat6-6.0.18-1.1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-09-15 18:12:18 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.1.fc8

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2008-09-15 20:13:56 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc9

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2008-09-15 20:16:27 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc8

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2008-09-16 23:24:58 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2008-09-16 23:28:24 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-04 21:30:58 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Certificate System 7.3

Via RHSA-2010:0602 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0602.html