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David Sean Taylor commented on JS2-1240:
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We will address the following security in Jetspeed:
1. Change the installer to use a safe release of Tomcat. As of this date
(2/4/2011), version 6.0.32 is recommended.
2. Remove the Tomcat Manager from the installer distributions
3. Remove all insecure passwords in tomcat-users.xml
4. Modifications will be made to the distribution to remove all reverse proxy
features from the distribution
> Security Vulnerability in Portals Zones
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> Key: JS2-1240
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2-1240
> Project: Jetspeed 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Deployment, Installer
> Affects Versions: 2.2.1
> Reporter: David Sean Taylor
> Assignee: David Sean Taylor
> Fix For: 2.2.2
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> As reported by Apache Security Team:
> It has come to the attention of the ASF security team that the latest
> version of Jetspeed ships with a critical security vulnerability that
> permits a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
> The details of the vulnerability are as follows:
> - - Jetspeed 2.2.1 includes version 6.0.18 of Apache Tomcat
> - - Jetspeed 2.2.1 includes the Tomcat manager application
> - - The default tomcat-users.xml file has been modified to include an
> enabled administrative user with an insecure default password
> This means that a default installation of Jetspeed 2.2.1 is vulnerable
> to remote execution of arbitrary code via deployment of malicious web
> applications using Tomcat's Manager application. Remote execution of
> arbitrary code is a critical (the highest rating) security vulnerability.
> The Portals PMC should also be aware that Tomcat 6.0.18 is 2.5 years old
> and itself has a number of security vulnerabilities. [1]
> [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
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