Bug 924841 (CVE-2013-0346)

Summary:	CVE-2013-0346 tomcat: World-readable log directory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	akurtako, djorm, ivan.afonichev, java-sig-commits, kdaniel
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-22 15:41:03 UTC

Agostino Sarubbo reported on the oss-security mailing list [1] that, on Gentoo, Tomcat 7's log directory is world-accessible and the log files inside the directory are world-readable.  This could allow an unprivileged user to read the log files.

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[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/22/15
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/23/5

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-22 15:42:54 UTC

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the tomcat package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18.

Comment 3 David Jorm 2013-09-02 00:36:52 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat does not regard this to be a security flaw. The tomcat log directory does not contain any sensitive information, and when sensitive information has been written to log files, this has been considered a security flaw in tomcat (e.g. CVE-2011-2204). This issue was reported to the Apache Tomcat project, and they have not considered it a flaw in any published security advisories.