Vigil@nce - Apache Tomcat: Cross Site Request Forgery of Manager
November 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery in the
Manager of Apache Tomcat, in order to force the victim to perform
operations.
Impacted products: Tomcat
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 05/11/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Apache Tomcat product uses a Manager service to manage
applications.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery in
the Manager of Apache Tomcat, in order to force the victim to
perform operations.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Apache-Tomcat-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-of-Manager-13709