CVE-2013-4590

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-26 · updated 2026-10-09
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: through 6.0.37; 8.0.0-rc1, 8.0.0-rc2, 8.0.0-rc3, 8.0.0-rc4, 8.0.0-rc5, 8.0.0-rc6 (+184)
Debian Linux: 7.0
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0148.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/59036
http://secunia.com/advisories/59722
http://secunia.com/advisories/59724
http://secunia.com/advisories/59873
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549528
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549529
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1558828
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

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