Directory Traversal Affecting tomcat package, versions [4.1.0,6.0.18]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382407
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jun 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jun 2009

CVE-2008-5515  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for tomcat.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, 6.0.0 through 6.0.18, and possibly earlier versions normalizes the target pathname before filtering the query string when using the RequestDispatcher method, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct directory traversal attacks via .. (dot dot) sequences and the WEB-INF directory in a Request.

CVSS Scores

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