Harish, On 3/8/16 5:47 PM, Harish Krishnan wrote: > Thanks Chris for the reply. > Looks like my understanding of the fix is incorrect. > I assumed (my bad) that, with the fix for this CVE in place (tomcat > 7.0.68) + setting the additional context attribute > (mapperContextRootRedirectEnabled="false"), all the redirects for that > webapp where context attribute was set, will completely be disabled. > You mentioned that only "protected directories" inside the deployed web > application is covered in this CVE fix. > Can you please help me understand what this protected directories are & how > to configure this in tomcat ?
A "protected directory" is one that has a <security-constraint> in web.xml. That's not a spec-defined term... just one we've been using because it captures the meaning with fewer words. As for the redirects you are seeing that "expose" the availability of a particular web application, those are essentially impossible to prevent, and not considered a part of the CVE. -chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
