$ cve CVE-2008-2938 JSON

CVE-2008-2938 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 99.7% (pctl 100)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS	99.71% — more likely to be exploited than 100% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-22
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2008-08-13
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
apache	tomcat

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Apache Tomcat < 6.0.18 - 'utf8' Directory Traversal	2010-07-28
exploit-db	Apache Tomcat < 6.0.18 - 'utf8' Directory Traversal (PoC)	2008-08-11

References

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