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CVE-2015-5174

medium · 4.3

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.

4.3
CVSS
12.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2016-02-25
Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
debiandebian_linux7.0
debiandebian_linux8.0
apachetomcat6.0.0
apachetomcat6.0.0
apachetomcat6.0.1
apachetomcat6.0.1
apachetomcat6.0.2
apachetomcat6.0.2
apachetomcat6.0.2
apachetomcat6.0.4
apachetomcat6.0.4
apachetomcat6.0.10
apachetomcat6.0.11
apachetomcat6.0.13
apachetomcat6.0.14
apachetomcat6.0.16
apachetomcat6.0.18
apachetomcat6.0.20
apachetomcat6.0.24
apachetomcat6.0.26
apachetomcat6.0.28
apachetomcat6.0.29
apachetomcat6.0.30
apachetomcat6.0.32
apachetomcat6.0.33
apachetomcat6.0.35
apachetomcat6.0.36
apachetomcat6.0.37
apachetomcat6.0.39
apachetomcat6.0.41
apachetomcat6.0.43
apachetomcat6.0.44
apachetomcat7.0.0
apachetomcat7.0.2
apachetomcat7.0.4
apachetomcat7.0.5
apachetomcat7.0.6
apachetomcat7.0.10
apachetomcat7.0.11
apachetomcat7.0.12

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References

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