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CVE-2013-4590 json

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat

published 12y ago modified last mo. also GHSA-87w9-x2c3-hrjj , EUVD-2022-3142

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.5%
EPSS 9.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 6.0.39, 7.0.50, 8.0.0-RC10
  • tomcat6 RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5
  • tomcat6-lib RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5
  • tomcat6-javadoc RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5
  • tomcat6-webapps RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5
  • tomcat6-el-2.1-api RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5
  • tomcat6-docs-webapp RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5
  • tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5
  • tomcat6-admin-webapps RHEL 6 6.0.24-78.el6_5

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:1038RHSA-2014:1088RHSA-2014:1087

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4590 updated cvss 1.2

tomcat: information disclosure via XXE when running untrusted web applications

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tomcat5 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 tomcat6, tomcat5 tomcat5
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-78.el6_5, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-78.el6_5, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-admin-webapps 6.0.24-78.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-lib 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-el-2.1-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api 6.0.24-78.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) tomcat6 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-javadoc 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-webapps 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-docs-webapp 6.0.24-78.el6_5, tomcat6-admin-webapps 6.0.24-78.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1038
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 5 Server httpd 2.2.26-35.ep6.el5, mod_rt 2.4.1-6.GA.ep6.el5, mod_ssl 2.2.26-35.ep6.el5, mod_snmp 2.4.1-13.GA.ep6.el5, httpd-tools 2.2.26-35.ep6.el5, httpd-manual 2.2.26-35.ep6.el5, +48 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1088
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6 Server httpd 2.2.26-35.ep6.el6, mod_rt 2.4.1-6.GA.ep6.el6, mod_ssl 2.2.26-35.ep6.el6, mod_snmp 2.4.1-13.GA.ep6.el6, httpd-tools 2.2.26-35.ep6.el6, httpd-manual 2.2.26-35.ep6.el6, +50 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1087
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1086
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-jsvc, tomcat-javadoc, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-2.2-api, +4 more Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 jbossweb jbossweb
    +4 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 jbossweb jbossweb
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

9.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
<6.0.39
>=7.0.0, <7.0.50
>=8.0.0-RC1, <8.0.0-RC10
6.0.39
7.0.50
8.0.0-RC10

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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