CVE-2015-5345

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-25 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Mapper component in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.30, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 processes redirects before considering security constraints and Filters, which allows remote attackers to determine the existence of a directory via a URL that lacks a trailing / (slash) character.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: 6.0.0, 6.0.0-alpha, 6.0.1, 6.0.1-alpha, 6.0.2, 6.0.2-alpha (+90)
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00047.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00069.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00082.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00085.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145974991225029&w=2
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135892/Apache-Tomcat-Directory-Disclosure.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2599.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Feb/146
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/122
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1715206

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