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Oracle Mojarra "FacesContext" Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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Release Date:  2012-06-08    Views:  982

Secunia Advisory SA49284

Where:

From remote

Impact:

Exposure of sensitive information,

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

CVE Reference(s):

Description


A vulnerability has been reported in Oracle Mojarra, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the FacesContext object, which fails to clean up the FacesContext reference and can be exploited to disclose another WAR's resources by calling the "FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()" function.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.1.7. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution:
Currently there is no known workaround.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-2436?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel

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