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Apache Tomcat Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2938 - Vulnerability Database
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Apache Tomcat Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2938

Medium
Reference: CVE-2008-2938
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2938
Title: Apache Tomcat Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability
Overview:

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.