Vigil@nce - Apache Tomcat: error page tampering
August 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger an HTTP error in Apache Tomcat, in order
to corrupt the error page documents.
Impacted products: Tomcat, Debian, Fedora, RHEL.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 06/06/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Apache Tomcat product offers a web service.
HTTP error pages may be customized. However, when the page content
is provided by a static document instead of a servlet output,
Tomcat allows to tamper with this source document.
An attacker can therefore trigger an HTTP error in Apache Tomcat,
in order to corrupt the error page documents.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Apache-Tomcat-error-page-tampering-22907