Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5174

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-02-25 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 06:41:07
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.65, and 8.x before 8.0.27 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. (slash dot dot) in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call, as demonstrated by the $CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory.