CVE-2015-5174

medium
Published 2016-02-25 · Modified 2025-08-28
CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
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

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5174.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected

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

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