CVE-2006-4223

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) before 6.0.2.13 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors related to "JSP source code exposure" (PK23475), which occurs when ibm-web-ext.xmi sets fileServingEnabled to true or ExtendedDocumentRoot is used to place a JSP outside a WAR.file; (3) the First Failure Data Capture (ffdc) log file (PK24834); and (4) traces (PK25568), a different issue than CVE-2006-4137.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Application Server: through 6.0.2.11; 6.0.2, 6.0.2.1, 6.0.2.3, 6.0.2.5, 6.0.2.7, 6.0.2.9

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21487
http://secunia.com/advisories/24478
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27006876#60213
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243541
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24013827
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22991
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3281
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0970
http://secunia.com/advisories/21487
http://secunia.com/advisories/24478
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27006876#60213
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243541

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