Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libapache-mod-jk  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-LIBAPACHEMODJK-651733
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed31 Oct 2018

Introduced: 31 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-11759  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libapache-mod-jk package and not the libapache-mod-jk package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The Apache Web Server (httpd) specific code that normalised the requested path before matching it to the URI-worker map in Apache Tomcat JK (mod_jk) Connector 1.2.0 to 1.2.44 did not handle some edge cases correctly. If only a sub-set of the URLs supported by Tomcat were exposed via httpd, then it was possible for a specially constructed request to expose application functionality through the reverse proxy that was not intended for clients accessing the application via the reverse proxy. It was also possible in some configurations for a specially constructed request to bypass the access controls configured in httpd. While there is some overlap between this issue and CVE-2018-1323, they are not identical.

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