Article - CS256080

Potential undesired access to sensitive information by authenticated users in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 14-Dec-2021   


Applies To

  • FlexPLM 11.0 F000 to M010
  • Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to M030

Description

  • Potential undesired access to sensitive information by authenticated users in Windchill PDMLink
  • Authenticated users in Windchill PDMLink may be able to access potentially sensitive content under \Windchill\WEB-INF
 
  • The contents of <Windchill>\codebase\WEB-INF are not required by any web clients for the normal operation of Windchill
  • This directory contains information that some customers may consider sensitive
  • The default Apache configuration is expected to deny access to that directory and its contents from all web clients
  • Due to a regression in the default configuration of Apache in Windchill, the contents of that directory may be accessible from web clients
  • Access would be restricted to authenticated users
 
 
  • To determine if this directory is open, access the following URL
  • http://<yourhostname>/Windchill/WEB-INF/webapp.properties
  • If the file is displayed after authentication then the directory is currently open
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