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Apache Tomcat Accept-Language Header Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA25721
Release Date: 2007-06-19
Popularity: 8,946 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Apache Tomcat 4.x
Apache Tomcat 5.x
Apache Tomcat 6.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1358


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Apache Tomcat, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the "Accept-Language" header is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site, e.g. via a specially crafted Flash file.

The vulnerability affects the following versions:
* Tomcat 4.0.0 to 4.0.6
* Tomcat 4.1.0 to 4.1.34
* Tomcat 5.0.0 to 5.0.30
* Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.20
* Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.5

Solution:
Update to 4.1.36, 5.5.21, 5.0.HEAD, or 6.0.6.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Masato Anzai and Toshiharu Sugiyama.

Original Advisory:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2316535199/index.html


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