CVE•Published 2014-02-26•Modified 2026-10-09•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2013-4590Apache · Tomcat
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
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EPSS percentile
95
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 5% of all CVEs
Description
Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Timeline
Published 2014-02-26
Modified 2026-10-09
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag134 hosts
vuln:CVE-2013-4590Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Apache Tomcat" version:"8.0.0"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Tomcat"HTTP body or banner mentions "Tomcat" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2013-4590Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2013-4590Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2013-4590Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2013-4590GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2013-4590" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.