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CVE-2013-4590


Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.


Security Impact Summary

CVE-2013-4590 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from apache, from debian, from oracle organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.


Published

2014-02-26T14:55:08.207

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE
Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-200

Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 8.0.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 7.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat ≤ 6.0.37 Yes
Application apache tomcat 1.1.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.1.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.2.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.2.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.2.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.2.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.2.4 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.3.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.3.1a Yes
Application apache tomcat 3.3.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.0.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.0.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.0.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.0.4 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.0.5 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.0.6 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.9 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.10 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.12 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.15 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.24 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.28 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.29 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.31 Yes
Application apache tomcat 4.1.36 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.4 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.5 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.6 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.7 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.8 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.9 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.10 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.11 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.12 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.13 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.14 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.15 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.16 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.17 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.18 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.19 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.21 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.22 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.23 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.24 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.25 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.26 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.27 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.28 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.29 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.0.30 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.4 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.5 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.6 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.7 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.8 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.9 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.10 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.11 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.12 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.13 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.14 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.15 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.16 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.17 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.18 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.19 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.20 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.21 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.22 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.23 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.24 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.25 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.26 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.27 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.28 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.29 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.30 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.31 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.32 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.33 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.34 Yes
Application apache tomcat 5.5.35 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.10 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.11 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.12 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.13 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.14 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.15 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.16 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.17 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.18 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.19 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.20 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.24 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.26 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.27 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.28 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.29 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.30 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.31 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.32 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.33 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.35 Yes
Application apache tomcat 6.0.36 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.0 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.1 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.2 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.3 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.4 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.4 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.10 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.11 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.12 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.13 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.14 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.15 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.16 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.17 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.18 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.19 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.20 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.21 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.22 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.23 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.24 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.25 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.26 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.27 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.28 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.29 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.30 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.31 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.32 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.33 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.34 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.35 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.36 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.37 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.38 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.39 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.40 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.41 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.42 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.43 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.44 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.45 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.46 Yes
Application apache tomcat 7.0.50 Yes
Operating System oracle solaris 11.2 Yes

References

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For apache's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.