vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-5174: tomcat8 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 24, 2016
Added
Mar 28, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-tomcat6debian-upgrade-tomcat7debian-upgrade-tomcat8
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