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Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Apache Tomcat

GHSA ID
GHSA-68g5-8q7f-m384
CVE ID
CVE-2017-7675
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

The HTTP/2 implementation in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M21 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.15 bypassed a number of security checks that prevented directory traversal attacks. It was therefore possible to bypass security constraints using a specially crafted URL.

CWEs

  • CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

References

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