Apache Tomcat Manager XSS vulnerability

CVE	Category	Price	Severity
CVE-2011-0013	CWE-79	$500	High

Author	Risk	Exploitation Type	Date
Unknown	High	Remote	2011-02-22

Our sensors found this exploit at: http://cxsecurity.com/ascii/WLB-2011020161

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CVE-2011-0013 Apache Tomcat Manager XSS vulnerability

Severity: Low

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
- - Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.5
- - Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.29
- - Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.31
- - Earlier, unsupported versions may also be affected

Description:
The HTML Manager interface displayed web applciation provided data, such
as display names, without filtering. A malicious web application could
trigger script execution by an administartive user when viewing the
manager pages.

Example:
<display-name><script>alert('hi');</script></display-name>

Mitigation:
Users of affected versions should apply one of the following mitigations:
- - Upgrade to a Tomcat version where this issue is fixed
- - Undeploy untrusted web applications
- - Remove the Manager application

Credit:
The issue was identified by the Tomcat security team.

References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
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