Bug#532362: CVE-2008-5515

Giuseppe Iuculano giuseppe at iuculano.it
Sat Jun 13 18:45:55 UTC 2009


Hi,

also CVE-2008-5515 is now disclosed:

Information Disclosure   CVE-2008-5515

When using a RequestDispatcher obtained from the Request, the target path was
normalised before the query string was removed. A request that included a
specially crafted request parameter could be used to access content that would
otherwise be protected by a security constraint or by locating it in under the
WEB-INF directory.

tomcat6: This was fixed in  revision 734734[1].
tomcat5: This was fixed in revision 782757[2] and revision 783291[3].


[1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=734734
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=782757
[3] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=783291

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