GHSA-42wg-hm62-jcwgMedium

Apache Tomcat installer for Windows has an untrusted search path vulnerability

Published
June 16, 2025
Last Modified
October 29, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Apache Tomcat installer for Windows. During installation, the Tomcat installer for Windows used icacls.exe without specifying a full path.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.7, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.41, from 9.0.23 through 9.0.105.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.8, 10.1.42 or 9.0.106, which fix the issue.

🎯 Affected products9

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 10.1.0, < 10.1.42
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:>= 9.0.23, < 9.0.106
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 10.1.0, < 10.1.42
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 9.0.23, < 9.0.106
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 10.1.0, < 10.1.42
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina:>= 9.0.23, < 9.0.106

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