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CVE-2008-2938

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…

Medium4.3EPSS 99.7%
Published
Updated
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redhat

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2008-2938, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
99.7% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

Affected products

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Affected packages

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