CVE-2007-0450
MEDIUMEPSS 100th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24732
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25106
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25280
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26235
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26660
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27037
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28365
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30899
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30908
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33668
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-03.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2446
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm
- http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
- http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200702e.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:241
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_5_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0327.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
- http://www.sec-consult.com/287.html
- http://www.sec-consult.com/fileadmin/Advisories/20070314-0-apache_tomcat_directory_traversal.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462791/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22960
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0975
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3087
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3386
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0065
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1979/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0233
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32988
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/277d42b48b6e9aef50949c0dcc79ce21693091d73da246b3c1981925%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b7a23e245c93235c503900da854a143596d901bf1a1f67e851a5de4%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d2a579bbd977c225c70cb23b0ec54865fb0dab5da3eff1e060c9935%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
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