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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-m7xj-ccqc-p4g2 Apache Tomcat Directory Traversal vulnerability
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31639 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31865 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31891 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32120 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32266 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33797 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37297 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4148 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-401.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/343355 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:188 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0648.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0862.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0864.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securenetwork.it/ricerca/advisory/download/SN-2009-02.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495318/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507729/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30633 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020665 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2343 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2823 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0320 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44411 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2938 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10587 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2938 cve-icon
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6229 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00712.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00859.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00889.html cve-icon cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:21:34.503Z

Reserved: 2008-06-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-2938

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-08-13T00:41:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-2938

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-08-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2938 - Bugzilla

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