Re: Active malware exploits of tomcat manager app

2008-10-04 Thread Mark Thomas
David Tyler wrote: > Given the widespread and increasing nature of this exploit, I think it would > be prudent of the tomcat devs to alter the default installation to disable > the tomcat manager by default or otherwise somehow require a non-default > password to be set. True, this is not a bug

Active malware exploits of tomcat manager app

2008-10-04 Thread David Tyler
There are increasing reports starting in July of 2008 and rising through August and September of an active exploit involving the default credentials for the tomcat manager app (not version specific). I am writing to suggest the the tomcat devs take some simple steps to help prevent novice user