CVE-2009-2901 Information

Description

The autodeployment process in Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 through 5.5.28 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.20 when autoDeploy is enabled deploys appBase files that remain from a failed undeploy which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended authentication requirements via HTTP requests.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00089.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00090.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00037.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127420533226623&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469267822771&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/38316 http://secunia.com/advisories/38346 http://secunia.com/advisories/38541 http://secunia.com/advisories/39317 http://secunia.com/advisories/43310 http://secunia.com/advisories/57126 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023503 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=892815&view=rev http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=902650&view=rev http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-899-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:176 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:177 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509151/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37942 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vc41_u1_rel_notes.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0213 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55856 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/06cfb634bc7bf37af7d8f760f118018746ad8efbd519c4b789ac9c2e@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8dcaf7c3894d66cb717646ea1504ea6e300021c85bb4e677dc16b1aa@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3aacc40356defc3f248aa504b1e48e819dd0471a0a83349080c6bcbf@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r584a714f141eff7b1c358d4679288177bd4ca4558e9999d15867d4b5@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E