A vulnerability has been identified in Apache Tomcat, which could be exploited by remote attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error in the WebDAV servlet when configured for use with a context and enabled for write, which could be exploited by remote attackers to disclose the contents of arbitary files by sending specially crafted WebDAV requests that specify an entity with a SYSTEM tag.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by eliteb0y.
ChangeLog
2007-10-25 : Initial release
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