Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 through 5.5.29 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.26 might allow remote attackers to discover the server's hostname or IP address by sending a request for a resource that requires (1) BASIC or (2) DIGEST authentication, and then reading the realm field in the WWW-Authenticate header in the reply.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2207-1 tomcat5.5 security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-w6q7-ww2x-7gm3 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=129070310906557&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469267822771&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136485229118404&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39574 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42368 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43310 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/57126 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=936540 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=936541 cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2207 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:176 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:177 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0896.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0897.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510879/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39635 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vc41_u1_rel_notes.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0980 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3056 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/06cfb634bc7bf37af7d8f760f118018746ad8efbd519c4b789ac9c2e%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8dcaf7c3894d66cb717646ea1504ea6e300021c85bb4e677dc16b1aa%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3aacc40356defc3f248aa504b1e48e819dd0471a0a83349080c6bcbf%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r584a714f141eff7b1c358d4679288177bd4ca4558e9999d15867d4b5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1157 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19492 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1157 cve-icon
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.12368}

epss

{'score': 0.13817}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T01:14:06.582Z

Reserved: 2010-03-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-1157

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-04-23T14:30:01.213

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-1157

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-04-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-1157 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.