CVE-2008-2370 Information

Description

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 a RequestDispatcher is used performs path normalization before removing the query string from the URI which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a request parameter.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/31379 http://secunia.com/advisories/31381 http://secunia.com/advisories/31639 http://secunia.com/advisories/31865 http://secunia.com/advisories/31891 http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 http://secunia.com/advisories/32120 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://secunia.com/advisories/32266 http://secunia.com/advisories/33797 http://secunia.com/advisories/33999 http://secunia.com/advisories/34013 http://secunia.com/advisories/35393 http://secunia.com/advisories/36249 http://secunia.com/advisories/37460 http://secunia.com/advisories/57126 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4099 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-401.htm http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200902e.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:188 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0648.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0862.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0864.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495022/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30494 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020623 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0002.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2305 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2823 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0320 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0503 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1535 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2215 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44156 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/06cfb634bc7bf37af7d8f760f118018746ad8efbd519c4b789ac9c2e@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8dcaf7c3894d66cb717646ea1504ea6e300021c85bb4e677dc16b1aa@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3aacc40356defc3f248aa504b1e48e819dd0471a0a83349080c6bcbf@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r584a714f141eff7b1c358d4679288177bd4ca4558e9999d15867d4b5@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10577 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5876 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00712.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00859.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00889.html