Vulnerability CVE-2008-2938

Vulnerability CVE-2008-2938

Published: 2008-08-12 Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Low	Apache Tomcat <= 6.0.18 UTF8 Directory Traversal Vulnerability	emericboit	12.08.2008

Type:

CWE-22

(Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10	2.9/10	8.6/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Medium	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	None	None

Affected software
Apache software foundation -> Tomcat
Apache -> Tomcat

References:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4148

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-401.htm

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/343355

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:188

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0648.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0862.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0864.html

http://www.securenetwork.it/ricerca/advisory/download/SN-2009-02.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495318/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507729/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30633

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020665

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2343

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2823

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0320

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44411

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10587

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6229

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00712.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00859.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00889.html

Vulnerability CVE-2008-2938

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Low

Apache Tomcat <= 6.0.18 UTF8 Directory Traversal Vulnerability

CWE-22

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

4.3/10

2.9/10

8.6/10

Remote

Medium

No required

Partial

None

None

Affected software

References: