Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SendMailServlet in the examples web application (examples/jsp/mail/sendmail.jsp) in Apache Tomcat 4.0.0 through 4.0.6 and 4.1.0 through 4.1.36 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the From field and possibly other fields, related to generation of error messages.

According to its self-reported version number, the instance of Apache Tomcat 4.x listening on the remote host is prior to 4.1.37. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The remote Apache Tomcat install may be vulnerable to an     information disclosure attack if the deprecated AJP     connector processes a client request having a non-zero     Content-Length and the client disconnects before     sending the request body. (CVE-2005-3164)

  - The remote Apache Tomcat install may be vulnerable to     a cross-site scripting attack if the JSP and Servlet     examples are enabled. Several of these examples do     not properly validate user input.
    (CVE-2007-1355, CVE-2007-2449)

  - The remote Apache Tomcat install may be vulnerable to     a cross-site scripting attack if the Manager web     application is enabled as it fails to escape input     data. (CVE-2007-2450)

  - The remote Apache Tomcat install may be vulnerable to an     information disclosure attack via cookies. Apache Tomcat     treats the single quote character in a cookie as a     delimiter which can lead to information, such as session     ID, to be disclosed. (CVE-2007-3382)

  - The remote Apache Tomcat install may be vulnerable to     a cross-site scripting attack if the SendMailServlet is     enabled. The SendMailServlet is a part of the examples     web application and, when reporting error messages,     fails to escape user provided data. (CVE-2007-3383)

  - The remote Apache Tomcat install may be vulnerable to an     information disclosure attack via cookies. The previous     fix for CVE-2007-3385 was incomplete and did not account     for the use of quotes or '%5C' in cookie values.
    (CVE-2007-3385, CVE-2007-5333)

  - The remote Apache Tomcat install may be vulnerable to an     information disclosure attack via the WebDAV servlet.
    Certain WebDAV requests, containing an entity with a     SYSTEM tag, can result in the disclosure of arbitrary     file contents. (CVE-2007-5461)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number..

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 that does not have the security update 2008-004 applied. 

This update contains security fixes for a number of programs.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5.x that is prior to 10.5.4. 

Mac OS X 10.5.4 contains security fixes for multiple components.

The remote web server includes an example JSP application that fails to sanitize user-supplied input before using it to generate dynamic content in the 'examples/SendMailServlet' servlet. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this issue to inject arbitrary HTML or script code into a user's browser to be executed within the security context of the affected site.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 that is older than version 10.5.4.  Mac OS X 10.5.4 contains security fixes for a number of programs.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
47030	Apache Tomcat 4.x < 4.1.37 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Web Servers	medium
33282	Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2008-004)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
33281	Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
25995	Apache Tomcat SendMailServlet sendmail.jsp 'mailfrom' Parameter XSS	Nessus	CGI abuses : XSS	medium
4564	Mac OS X < 10.5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	critical

Detections

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CVE-2007-3383

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Tenable Plugins

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