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Sesame Unauthorised User Repository Access Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11497
Release Date: 2004-04-29
Popularity: 6,035 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Sesame 1.0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Sesame, which can be exploited by malicious, anonymous users to access other user's repositories.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the servlets. The issue reportedly surfaced on Tomcat 5, which reuses threads to handle requests.

Successful exploitation grants a user full access to the repository of a logged in user.

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