CVE-2008-2938
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Path traversal
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)93%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31639
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31865
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31891
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982