CVE-2009-2902

medium
Published 2010-01-28 · Modified 2024-02-21
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Apache Tomcat

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/38316

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=5.5.0,<5.5.295.5.29
java Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat>=6.0.0,<6.0.246.0.24

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachetomcat5.5.28
apache apachetomcat6.0.11
apache apachetomcat6.0.19
apache apachetomcat6.0.20
apache apachetomcat5.5.16
apache apachetomcat6.0
apache apachetomcat6.0.4
apache apachetomcat5.5.14
apache apachetomcat5.5.15
apache apachetomcat5.5.20
apache apachetomcat6.0.2
apache apachetomcat6.0.3
apache apachetomcat5.5.5
apache apachetomcat5.5.9
apache apachetomcat5.5.10
apache apachetomcat5.5.22
apache apachetomcat5.5.26
apache apachetomcat6.0.8
apache apachetomcat6.0.18
apache apachetomcat5.5.0
apache apachetomcat5.5.6
apache apachetomcat5.5.7
apache apachetomcat5.5.11
apache apachetomcat5.5.12
apache apachetomcat6.0.14
apache apachetomcat6.0.15
apache apachetomcat6.0.17
apache apachetomcat5.5.27
apache apachetomcat5.5.1
apache apachetomcat5.5.2
apache apachetomcat5.5.3
apache apachetomcat5.5.4
apache apachetomcat5.5.8
apache apachetomcat5.5.18
apache apachetomcat5.5.19
apache apachetomcat6.0.7
apache apachetomcat6.0.10
apache apachetomcat6.0.16
apache apachetomcat6.0.5
apache apachetomcat5.5.17
apache apachetomcat6.0.0
apache apachetomcat6.0.1
apache apachetomcat6.0.6
apache apachetomcat6.0.12
apache apachetomcat5.5.13
apache apachetomcat5.5.21
apache apachetomcat5.5.23
apache apachetomcat5.5.24
apache apachetomcat5.5.25
apache apachetomcat6.0.9
apache apachetomcat6.0.13

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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