Title: Apache Tomcat SendMailServlet Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Apache Tomcat is a Java-based webserver application for multiple operating systems.
Apache Tomcat SendMailServlet is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this issue by supplying arbitrary HTML and script through the 'From' field when sending an email using the 'examples/jsp/mail/sendmail.jsp' script.
The attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
This issue affects the following versions of Tomcat:
4.0.0 to 4.0.6
4.1.0 to 4.1.36
NOTE: Apache Tomcat SendMailServlet is an example application. It is not intended for production environments.
Affected Products:
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.0.0
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.0.1
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.0.2
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.0.3
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.0.4
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.0.5
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.0.6
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.0
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.10
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.12
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.24
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.3 beta
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.34
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.36
- Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 4.1.9 beta
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.10
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.7
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.9
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.0
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.10
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.4
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.6
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.7
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.8
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.9
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Gentoo Linux 1.2.0
- Gentoo Linux 1.4.0 _rc1
- Gentoo Linux 1.4.0 _rc2
- Gentoo Linux 1.4.0 _rc3
- RedHat Stronghold 4.0.0
References:
- Apache: Apache Tomcat 4.x vulnerabilities
- Apache: Apache Tomcat Homepage
- Apple: About the security content of Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X 10.5.4
- US-CERT: Vulnerability Note VU#862600 Apache Tomcat SendMailServlet example vulnerable to
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