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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4724

Original release date:09/05/2007

Last revised:02/05/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in cal2.jsp in the calendar examples application in Apache Tomcat 4.1.31 allows remote attackers to add events as arbitrary users via the time and description parameters.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Apache (09/06/2007): This name is a duplicate of CVE-2006-7196. This issue was fixed in Apache Tomcat 4.1.32 and 5.5.16.

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070904 Apache tomcat calendar example cross site scripting and cross site request forgery vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/478491/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 41029

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/41029

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070904 Re: Apache tomcat calendar example cross site scripting and cross site request forgery vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-09/0040.html

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3094

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3094