CVE-2015-5174CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2015-5174

Medium · published February 25, 2016

CVSS v3.0
4.3
EPSS
13%
Percentile
96.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.12555 · 96.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2016-02-25T06:59Z
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EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 FEB 01:00Z
    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…
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