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CVE-2015-5174

Public on 2016-02-25
Modified on 2016-03-29
Description

A directory traversal flaw was found in Tomcat's RequestUtil.java. A remote, authenticated user could use this flaw to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a '/..' in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat6 2016-03-29 15:30 ALAS-2016-681
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat7 2016-03-10 16:30 ALAS-2016-657
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat8 2016-03-10 16:30 ALAS-2016-658

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N