CVE-2013-4590

tomcat: information disclosure via XXE when running untrusted web applications

Published Feb 26, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 9.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-91-1 tomcat6 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3530-1 tomcat6 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-3142 Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-87w9-x2c3-hrjj Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat
References
Link Providers
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0148.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59036 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59722 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59724 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59873 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549528 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549529 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1558828 cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21667883 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675886 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21677147 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21678231 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:052 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:084 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65768 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069911 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04851013 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4590 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4590 cve-icon
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Oct 9, 2026, 7:13 PM
Reserved
Jun 12, 2013, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 26, 2014, 2:55 PM
Modified
Oct 9, 2026, 8:17 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Feb 25, 2014, 12:00 AM