Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure

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Tomcat versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.16, 6.0.0 through 6.0.32, and 5.5.0 through 5.5.33 suffer from an information disclosure vulnerability. When using the MemoryUserDatabase (based on tomcat-users.xml) and creating users via JMX, an exception during the user creation process may trigger an error message in the JMX client that includes the user’s password. This error message is also written to the Tomcat logs. User passwords are visible to administrators with JMX access and/or administrators with read access to the tomcat-users.xml file. Users that do not have these permissions but are able to read log files may be able to discover a user’s password.

Source: Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure