CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0450

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-03-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-03-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• apache http server • apache tomcat (>= 5.0.0 < 5.5.22) • apache tomcat (>= 6.0.0 < 6.0.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References