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Title : Apache Tomcat "UTF-8" Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2343
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2938
CWE ID : CWE-22
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-12

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A vulnerability has been identified in Apache Tomcat, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an input validation error when a context is configured with allowLinking="true" and the connector is configured with URIEncoding set tot "UTF-8", which could be exploited to download arbitrary files from an affected server via directory traversal attacks.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Simon Ryeo.

ChangeLog

2008-08-12 : Initial release

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