CVE-2008-2938

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

13/08/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat::::::::	4.0.0 (including)	4.1.37 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat::::::::	5.0.0 (including)	5.5.26 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat::::::::	6.0.0 (including)	6.0.16 (including)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2008-2938

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools