CVE-2008-2938

Summary

CVECVE-2008-2938
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-08-13 00:41:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:02:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.1 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.10 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.11 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.12 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.13 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.14 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.15 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.2 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.3 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.4 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.5 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.6 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.7 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.8 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.9 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.1 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.10 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.11 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.12 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.13 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.14 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.15 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.2 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.3 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.4 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.5 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.6 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.7 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.8 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat 6.0.9 All All All
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
Application Apache Tomcat All All All All
Application Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 6.0.16 All All All
Application Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 6.0.16 All All All

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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 997489 Java (Maven) Security Update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-m7xj-ccqc-p4g2)
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