GHSA-6qr6-x7jm-x2q6MediumCVSS 4.3

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Apache Tomcat

Published
May 14, 2022
Last Modified
August 28, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2015-5174 →

📋 Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.65, and 8.x before 8.0.27 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. (slash dot dot) in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call, as demonstrated by the $CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory.

🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.64
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 6.0.0, <= 6.0.44
  • maven/org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:>= 8.0.0-RC1, <= 8.0.26

🔗 References (46)