Apache Tomcat < 5.5.17 Remote Directory Listing Vulnerability

                                                ScanAlert Security Advisory - http://www.scanalert.com

Directory Listing in Apache Tomcat 5.x.x

Date: 07/21/2006
Vendor: Apache
Package: Tomcat
Versions: 5.x.x (5.0.28, 5.5.12, 5.5.9, and 5.5.7 . Confirmed)
Credit: ScanAlert.s Enterprise Services Team.

Overview:
Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation 
for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

Vulnerabilities:
Apache Tomcat can be forced to reveal a complete directory listing for any directory by requesting 
a mapped file extension prepended with a semicolon, a reserved character. The file does not need to exist.

Examples:
http://www.sitexyz.com/;index.jsp
http://www.sitexyz.com/help/;help.do

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