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[SA17019] Hitachi Cosminexus Request Body Disclosure of Personal Information

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 10:09:57 CDT

TITLE:
Hitachi Cosminexus Request Body Disclosure of Personal Information

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17019

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17019/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Cosminexus 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/5795/
Cosminexus 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/5794/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Hitachi Cosminexus, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information.

The problem is that if a malformed HTTP post request is sent without
a body, then the body data of the previously sent HTTP request will
be used when executing servlets and JSP pages. This may be exploited
to disclose personal information of other users.

SOLUTION:
Fixes are available (see patch matrix).
http://www.hitachi-support.com/security_e/vuls_e/HS05-019_e/01-e.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hitachi-support.com/security_e/vuls_e/HS05-019_e/index-e.html

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