Directory Traversal Affecting tomcat package, versions [,6.0.45)[7.0.0, 7.0.67)[8.0.0, 8.0.30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382313
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-5345  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 6.0.45, 7.0.67, 8.0.30 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. The Mapper component in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.30, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 processes redirects before considering security constraints and Filters, which allows remote attackers to determine the existence of a directory via a URL that lacks a trailing / (slash) character.

CVSS Scores

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