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CVE-2007-0450

MEDIUMEPSS 100th pctl
5.0
CVSS v2
NVD

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.

How to fix

Remediation Available
tomcatNVD
Affected:>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.10Fixed in:6.0.10CVE-2007-0450derived from NVD

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CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

90.77%probability of exploitation in 30 days
100thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.

References

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