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Medium
CVE-2007-0450
Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x...
Vulnerability Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x before 5.5.22 and 6.x before 6.0.10, when using certain proxy modules (mod_proxy, mod_rewrite, mod_jk), allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence with combinations of (1) "/" (slash), (2) "\" (backslash), and (3) URL-encoded backslash (%5C) characters in the URL, which are valid separators in Tomcat but not in Apache.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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References
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30908
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3087
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32988
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30899
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1979/references
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_5_sr.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0065
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33668
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25280
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24732
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0233
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22960
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28365
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
- http://www.sec-consult.com/287.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3386
- http://www.sec-consult.com/fileadmin/Advisories/20070314-0-apache_tomcat_directory_traversal.txt
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0327.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27037
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0975
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26660
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
- http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200702e.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-03.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25106
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2446
- http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx
- http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462791/100/0/threaded
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:241
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26235
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10643
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ba661b0edd913b39ff129a32d855620dd861883ade05fd88a8ce517d%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d2a579bbd977c225c70cb23b0ec54865fb0dab5da3eff1e060c9935%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/277d42b48b6e9aef50949c0dcc79ce21693091d73da246b3c1981925%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b7a23e245c93235c503900da854a143596d901bf1a1f67e851a5de4%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf8e8c091182b45daa50d3557cad9b10bb4198e3f08cf8f1c66a1b08d%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5c616dfc49156e4b06ffab842800c80f4425924d0f20c452c127a53c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
http server, tomcat
Vulnerable Versions:
5.0.0, 6.0.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 16th, 2007
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.