SB2019061836 - Fedora EPEL 6 update for tomcat
Published: June 18, 2019 Updated: April 25, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0221)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within SSI printenv command, when parsing URI. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Example:
http://[host]/printenv.shtml?%3Cscript%3Ealert(%27xss%27)%3C/script%3E
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.