Apache Tomcat 4.1 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

From: skinnay@skinnux.com
Date: 08/21/02 

Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:31:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: <skinnay@skinnux.com>
To: <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>

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Title: Apache Tomcat 4.1 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
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                 Author: Skinnay of Malloc()
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Contact: "Skinnay" - (skinnay@skinnux.com)
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Apache Tomcat is a Webserver/servlet engine available for multiple *nix
platforms and Windows platforms.

There exist a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Apache Tomcat
that may allow people to craft links to vulnerable webservers
and execute malicious instructions.

Exploitation:

Tested on Tomcat 4.1 / Linux

http://example.com:8080/666%0a%0a>alert("asdf");</script>666.jsp

Found by Skinnay of Malloc().. word.. :P