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Published

2025-06-20 06:04

Modified

2025-11-06 13:25

Summary

Apache Tomcat: exe side-loading via icalcs.exe in Tomcat installer for Windows

Details

Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Apache Tomcat installer for Windows. During installation, the Tomcat installer for Windows used icacls.exe without specifying a full path.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.7, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.41, from 9.0.23 through 9.0.105. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 through 8.5.100 and 7.0.95 through 7.0.109. Other EOL versions may also be affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.8, 10.1.42 or 9.0.106, which fix the issue.

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  "id": "BIT-tomcat-2025-49124",
  "modified": "2025-11-06T13:25:46.476Z",
  "published": "2025-06-20T06:04:24.795Z",
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CVE-2025-49124 (GCVE-0-2025-49124)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-16 14:22 – Updated: 2025-10-29 14:25

Title

Apache Tomcat: exe side-loading via icalcs.exe in Tomcat installer for Windows

Summary

Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Apache Tomcat installer for Windows. During installation, the Tomcat installer for Windows used icacls.exe without specifying a full path. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.7, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.41, from 9.0.23 through 9.0.105. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 through 8.5.100 and 7.0.95 through 7.0.109. Other EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.8, 10.1.42 or 9.0.106, which fix the issue.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path

Assigner

apache

References

URL

Tags

https://lists.apache.org/thread/lnow7tt2j6hb9kcpk…

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache Tomcat	Affected: 11.0.0-M1 , ≤ 11.0.7 (semver) Affected: 10.1.0 , ≤ 10.1.41 (semver) Affected: 9.0.23 , ≤ 9.0.105 (semver) Affected: 8.5.44 , ≤ 8.5.100 (semver) Affected: 7.0.95 , ≤ 7.0.109 (semver) Unknown: 10.0.0-M1 , ≤ 10.0.27 (semver)

Credits

T. Doğa Gelişli https://linkedin.com/in/tdogagelisli/

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