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  | | | -none- | -none- 2007-08-13 - By Mark Thomas
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CVE-2007 (See http://CVE-2007.ora-code.com)-3382: Handling of cookies containing a ' character
Severity: Low (Session Hi-jacking)
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: 6.0.0 to 6.0.13 5.5.0 to 5.5.24 5.0.0 to 5.0.30 4.1.0 to 4.1.36 3.3 to 3.3.2
Description: Tomcat incorrectly treats a single quote character (') in a cookie value as a delimiter. In some circumstances this can lead to the leaking of information such as session ID to an attacker.
Mitigation: Upgrade to 6.0.14
Credit: This issue was discovered by Tomasz Kuczynski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, who worked with the CERT/CC to report the vulnerability.
Example: http://localost:8080/servlets-examples/servlet/CookieExample?cookiename=BLOCKER &cookievalue=%5C%22A%3D%27%3B+Expires%3DThu%2C+1+Jan+2009+00%3A00%3A01+UTC%3B +Path%3D%2Fservlets-examples%2Fservlet+%3B
References: http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
Mark Thomas
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