CVE-2025-49124

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.

Published: Jun 16, 2025
Updated: Nov 7, 2025
CVE: CVE-2025-49124
GHSA: GHSA-42wg-hm62-jcwg
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 8.4
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWEs:

CWE-426

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apache / tomcat	10.1.0	10.1.42
apache / tomcat	11.0.0	11.0.8
apache / tomcat	9.0.23	9.0.106
org.apache.tomcat.embed / tomcat-embed-core	11.0.0-M1	11.0.8
org.apache.tomcat.embed / tomcat-embed-core	10.1.0	10.1.42
org.apache.tomcat.embed / tomcat-embed-core	9.0.23	9.0.106
org.apache.tomcat / tomcat	11.0.0-M1	11.0.8
org.apache.tomcat / tomcat	10.1.0	10.1.42
org.apache.tomcat / tomcat	9.0.23	9.0.106
org.apache.tomcat / tomcat-catalina	11.0.0-M1	11.0.8
org.apache.tomcat / tomcat-catalina	10.1.0	10.1.42
org.apache.tomcat / tomcat-catalina	9.0.23	9.0.106

Vulnerability Database

300,444

CVE-2025-49124

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