Directory Traversal Affecting tomcat package, versions [5.0.0,5.5.22)[6.0.0,6.0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
96.97% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382305
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Mar 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Mar 2007

CVE-2007-0450  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 5.5.22, 6.0.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x before 5.5.22 and 6.x before 6.0.10, when using certain proxy modules (mod_proxy, mod_rewrite, mod_jk), allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence with combinations of (1) "/" (slash), (2) "" (backslash), and (3) URL-encoded backslash (%5C) characters in the URL, which are valid separators in Tomcat but not in Apache.

CVSS Scores

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