CVE-2008-2938

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 99.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: from 4.0.0 through 4.1.37; from 5.0.0 through 5.5.26; from 6.0.0 through 6.0.16

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31639
http://secunia.com/advisories/31865
http://secunia.com/advisories/31891
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
http://secunia.com/advisories/32120
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
http://secunia.com/advisories/32266
http://secunia.com/advisories/33797

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