CVE-2008-2938

Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.37, 5.5.0 through 5.5.26, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16, when allowLinking and UTF-8 are…

published August 13, 2008

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High probability of exploitation

NVD has not assigned a CVSS score to this record. It sits in the 100.0th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS
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EPSS
100%
Percentile
100.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.37, 5.5.0 through 5.5.26, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16, when allowLinking and UTF-8 are enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via encoded directory traversal sequences in the URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2370. NOTE: versions earlier than 6.0.18 were reported affected, but the vendor advisory lists 6.0.16 as the last affected version.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.99708 · 100.0th percentile
Published
2008-08-13T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 AUG 00:00Z
    Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.37, 5.5.0 through 5.5.26, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16, when allowLinking and UTF-8 are…
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