VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5174

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Published 2016-02-25 · Modified 2025-08-28
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Apache Tomcat

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=8.0.0-RC1,<8.0.278.0.27
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=7.0.0,<7.0.657.0.65
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=6.0.0,<6.0.456.0.45

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachetomcat6.0.0
apache apachetomcat6.0.1
apache apachetomcat6.0.2
apache apachetomcat6.0.4
apache apachetomcat6.0.10
apache apachetomcat6.0.11
apache apachetomcat6.0.13
apache apachetomcat6.0.14
apache apachetomcat6.0.16
apache apachetomcat6.0.18
apache apachetomcat6.0.20
apache apachetomcat6.0.24
apache apachetomcat6.0.26
apache apachetomcat6.0.28
apache apachetomcat6.0.29
apache apachetomcat6.0.30
apache apachetomcat6.0.32
apache apachetomcat6.0.33
apache apachetomcat6.0.35
apache apachetomcat6.0.36
apache apachetomcat6.0.37
apache apachetomcat6.0.39
apache apachetomcat6.0.41
apache apachetomcat6.0.43
apache apachetomcat6.0.44
apache apachetomcat7.0.0
apache apachetomcat7.0.2
apache apachetomcat7.0.4
apache apachetomcat7.0.5
apache apachetomcat7.0.6
apache apachetomcat7.0.10
apache apachetomcat7.0.11
apache apachetomcat7.0.12
apache apachetomcat7.0.14
apache apachetomcat7.0.16
apache apachetomcat7.0.19
apache apachetomcat7.0.20
apache apachetomcat7.0.21
apache apachetomcat7.0.22
apache apachetomcat7.0.23
apache apachetomcat7.0.25
apache apachetomcat7.0.26
apache apachetomcat7.0.27
apache apachetomcat7.0.28
apache apachetomcat7.0.29
apache apachetomcat7.0.30
apache apachetomcat7.0.32
apache apachetomcat7.0.33
apache apachetomcat7.0.34
apache apachetomcat7.0.35
apache apachetomcat7.0.37
apache apachetomcat7.0.39
apache apachetomcat7.0.40
apache apachetomcat7.0.41
apache apachetomcat7.0.42
apache apachetomcat7.0.47
apache apachetomcat7.0.50
apache apachetomcat7.0.52
apache apachetomcat7.0.53
apache apachetomcat7.0.54
apache apachetomcat7.0.55
apache apachetomcat7.0.56
apache apachetomcat7.0.57
apache apachetomcat7.0.59
apache apachetomcat7.0.61
apache apachetomcat7.0.62
apache apachetomcat7.0.63
apache apachetomcat7.0.64
apache apachetomcat8.0.0
apache apachetomcat8.0.1
apache apachetomcat8.0.11
apache apachetomcat8.0.12
apache apachetomcat8.0.14
apache apachetomcat8.0.15
apache apachetomcat8.0.17
apache apachetomcat8.0.18
apache apachetomcat8.0.20
apache apachetomcat8.0.21
apache apachetomcat8.0.22
apache apachetomcat8.0.23
apache apachetomcat8.0.24
apache apachetomcat8.0.26

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.