CVE-2007-0450

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

16/03/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

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) "/" (slash), (2) "\" (backslash), and (3) URL-encoded backslash (%5C) characters in the URL, which are valid separators in Tomcat but not in Apache.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat::::::::	5.0.0 (including)	5.5.22 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat::::::::	6.0.0 (including)	6.0.10 (excluding)

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CVE-2007-0450

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools