Apache Tomcat allowLinking UTF-8 Traversal Arbitrary File Access

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33866

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Synopsis

The remote web server is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability.

Description

The version of Apache Tomcat running on the remote host is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability due to an issue with the UTF-8 charset implementation within the underlying JVM. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by encoding directory traversal sequences as UTF-8 in a request, to view arbitrary files on the remote host.

Note that successful exploitation requires that a context be configured with 'allowLinking' set to 'true' and the connector with 'URIEncoding' set to 'UTF-8', neither of which is a default setting.

Solution

Upgrade to Tomcat 6.0.18 / 5.5.27 / 4.1.SVN or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33866

File Name: tomcat_utf8_dir_traversal.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 8/12/2008

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apache:tomcat

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Apache Tomcat

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Exploited by Nessus: true

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Elliot (Apache Tomcat File Disclosure)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2938

BID: 30633

CWE: 22

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