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CVE-2008-2938

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.

  • Published: Aug 13, 2008
  • Updated: Nov 8, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2008-2938
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Software From Fixed in
apache / tomcat 6.0.0 6.0.16.x
apache / tomcat 4.0.0 4.1.37.x
apache / tomcat 5.0.0 5.5.26.x