CVE-2013-4590: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 8.0.0 only; up to and including 6.0.37; version 1.1.3 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.1.1 only; …
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.2 only

Published 2014-02-26. Last modified 2026-10-09.