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CVE-2013-4590 Detail

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.


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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0148.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59036 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59722 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59724 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59873 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549528 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549529 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1558828 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21667883 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675886 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21677147 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21678231 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:052 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:084 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65768 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069911 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04851013 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2013-4590
NVD Published Date:
02/26/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.