CVE-2007-1860

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-05-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

mod_jk in Apache Tomcat JK Web Server Connector 1.2.x before 1.2.23 decodes request URLs within the Apache HTTP Server before passing the URL to Tomcat, which allows remote attackers to access protected pages via a crafted prefix JkMount, possibly involving double-encoded .. (dot dot) sequences and directory traversal, a related issue to CVE-2007-0450.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat Jk Web Server Connector: through 1.2.22

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25383
http://secunia.com/advisories/25701
http://secunia.com/advisories/26235
http://secunia.com/advisories/26512
http://secunia.com/advisories/27037
http://secunia.com/advisories/29242
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-15.xml
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/news/20070301.html#20070518.1

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