UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4590

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4590
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4590.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4590
Upstream
  • CVE-2013-4590
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:42:55Z
Published
2014-02-26T14:55:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:17:09.657489Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / tomcat6

Package

Name
tomcat6
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tomcat6@6.0.39-1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.39-1

Affected versions

6.*
6.0.37-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "libservlet2.4-java"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "libservlet2.5-java"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "libservlet2.5-java-doc"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "libtomcat6-java"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat6"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat6-admin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat6-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat6-docs"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat6-examples"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat6-extras"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.39-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat6-user"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4590.json"

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / tomcat7

Package

Name
tomcat7
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tomcat7@7.0.52-1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.0.52-1

Affected versions

7.*
7.0.42-1
7.0.47-1
7.0.50-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "libservlet3.0-java"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "libservlet3.0-java-doc"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "libtomcat7-java"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat7"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat7-admin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat7-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat7-docs"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat7-examples"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "7.0.52-1",
            "binary_name": "tomcat7-user"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4590.json"