CVE-2015-5174
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 13%
exploitation probability
13%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.65, and 8.x before 8.0.27 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. (slash dot dot) in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call, as demonstrated by the $CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00047.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00069.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00082.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00085.htmlhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145974991225029&w=2http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135883/Apache-Tomcat-Limited-Directory-Traversal.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1435.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2599.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1432https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1433https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1434