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Bug 234441 - www-servers/tomcat <6.0.18: Directory Traversal
Summary: www-servers/tomcat <6.0.18: Directory Traversal
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225477
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Reported: 2008-08-11 04:48 UTC by Emanuele Gentili
Modified: 2008-08-13 22:23 UTC (History)
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Description Emanuele Gentili 2008-08-11 04:48:36 UTC 
Severity: High
Impact: Remote File Disclosure
Vulnerable Version: prior to 6.0.18

As Apache Security Team, this problem occurs because of JAVA side.
If your context.xml or server.xml allows 'allowLinking'and 'URIencoding' as
'UTF-8', an attacker can obtain your important system files.(e.g.  /etc/passwd)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Exploit
If your webroot directory has three depth(e.g /usr/local/wwwroot), An
attacker can access arbitrary files as below. (Proof-of-concept)

http://www.target.com/%c0%ae%c0%ae/%c0%ae%c0%ae/%c0%ae%c0%ae/foo/bar
Comment 1 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-13 22:23:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225477 ***