Information Disclosure in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2013-4590)
Summary
Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2013-4590). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2013-4590 has been found in Apache Tomcat.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Apache Tomcat CVE-2013-4590" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2013-4590 (Apache Tomcat) — CWE-200
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Information disclosure (CWE-200) exists in Apache Tomcat.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Apache Tomcat.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Tomcat' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Tomcat' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Tomcatを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
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- advisory debian.org
- advisory mandriva.com
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- issue svn.apache.org
- issue svn.apache.org
- issue svn.apache.org
- issue bugzilla.redhat.com
- mailing marc.info
- patch tomcat.apache.org
- patch tomcat.apache.org
- patch tomcat.apache.org
- web oracle.com
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