GHSA-4prh-gqw8-rgh5Medium

Apache Tomcat Directory Traversal

Published
May 1, 2022
Last Modified
January 8, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in 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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 5.0, < 5.5.22
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 6.0, < 6.0.10

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