CVE-2008-1947

Vulnerabilidad de ejecución de secuencias de comandos en sitios cruzados (XSS) en Apache Tomcat v5.5.9 a la v5.5.26 y v6.0.0 a la v6.0.16, permite a atacantes remotos inyectar secuencias de comandos web y HTML de su elección a través del parámetro name (también conocido como el atributo hostname) al host-manager/html/add.

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Apache Tomcat server. The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component did not restrict certain permissions for web applications which could allow a remote attacker to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files. A cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in the HttpServletResponse.sendError() method which could allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via forged HTTP headers. A cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in the host manager application that could allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the hostname parameter. A traversal vulnerability was found when using a RequestDispatcher in combination with a servlet or JSP that could allow a remote attacker to utilize a specially-crafted request parameter to access protected web resources. A traversal vulnerability was found when the 'allowLinking' and 'URIencoding' settings were actived which could allow a remote attacker to use a UTF-8-encoded request to extend their privileges and obtain local files accessible to the Tomcat process. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.