Description

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Apache Tomcat is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input. Exploiting this issue allows attackers to delete or overwrite arbitrary files within the context of the web-server.

Affected Apache Tomcat version (5.5.0 - 5.5.28).
Affected Apache Tomcat version (6.0.0 - 6.0.20).

Remediation

Upgrade Apache Tomcat to the latest version.

References

Apache Tomcat WAR Deployment Directory Traversal Weaknesses and Security Issue 3

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2009-2693 CVE-2009-2901 CWE-22 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Directory Traversal Missing Update