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CVE-2008-2938 (GCVE-0-2008-2938)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-13 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:21
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
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Date Public
2008-08-11 00:00
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