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Apache Tomcat Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2007-0450 - Vulnerability Database
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Apache Tomcat Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2007-0450

Medium
Reference: CVE-2007-0450
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0450
Title: Apache Tomcat Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability
Overview:

Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x before 5.5.22 and 6.x before 6.0.10 when using certain proxy modules (mod_proxy mod_rewrite mod_jk) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence with combinations of (1) quot/quot (slash) (2) quotquot (backslash) and (3) URL-encoded backslash (5C) characters in the URL which are valid separators in Tomcat but not in Apache.