re: Tomcat Security Exposure

From: Adam Manock (abmanockat_private)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 04:28:54 PST

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     From the Tomcat-user list, anyone know any more?
    
    >During development and deployment I discovered
    >that many types of errors while reading the web.xml
    >file would result in the app coming up (at least
    >partly), but with no security.
    >
    >This seems like a serious security exposure in
    >a production environment.
    >
    >I believe this is potentially a serious security
    >exposure and suggest that tomcat should never
    >allow access to the app if it has any problems
    >reading the web.xml file or establishing any of
    >the security environment.
    >
    >Frank Lawlor
    >Athens Group, Inc.
    >(512) 345-0600 x151
    >Athens Group, an employee-owned consulting firm integrating technology
    >strategy and software solutions.
    
    Adam
    



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