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CVE-2021-24122: Apache Tomcat information disclosure
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 22.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-01-14 · updated 2026-10-08
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
When serving resources from a network location using the NTFS file system, Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M9, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.39, 8.5.0 to 8.5.59 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.106 were susceptible to JSP source code disclosure in some configurations. The root cause was the unexpected behaviour of the JRE API File.getCanonicalPath() which in turn was caused by the inconsistent behaviour of the Windows API (FindFirstFileW) in some circumstances.
Affected products
- Apache Tomcat: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.106; from 8.5.0 through 8.5.59; from 9.0.1 through 9.0.39; 9.0.0-milestone1, 9.0.0-milestone10, 9.0.0-milestone11, 9.0.0-milestone12, 9.0.0-milestone13, 9.0.0-milestone14 (+30)
- Debian Linux: 9.0
- Oracle Corporation Oracle Agile PLM: 9.3.3, 9.3.6
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/14/1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1595889b083e05986f42b944dc43060d6b083022260b6ea64d2cec52%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7382e1e35b9bc7c8f320b90ad77e74c13172d08034e20c18000fe710%40%3Cdev.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r776c64337495bf28b7d5597268114a888e3fad6045c40a0da0c66d4d%40%3Cdev.tomee.apache.org%3E
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