PT-2005-5368 · Microsoft+2 · Windows+2

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2022-05-01 · CVE-2005-4703

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Tomcat version 4.0.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a request for a file that contains an MS-DOS device name, such as lpt9, which leaks the pathname in an error message. This can be demonstrated by requesting lpt9.xtp using Nikto. The issue only affects Windows operating systems.

Recommendations For Apache Tomcat version 4.0.3, update to version 4.1.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4703

GHSA-X89R-2WJQ-MJ7X

Affected Products

Apache Tomcat

Nikto

Windows

References · 17

• 🔥 http://osvdb.org/20033 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://osvdb.org/ref/20/20033-tomcat-dos-path_disclosure.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/31551 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4703 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-x89r-2wjq-mj7x · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42914 · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4703 · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080511145425/http://securityfocus.com/bid/28484 · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E · Note
• https://tomcat.apache.org/security-4 · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E · Note