CVE-2015-5174
tomcat: URL Normalization issue
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · February 22, 2016
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
A directory traversal flaw was found in Tomcat's RequestUtil.java. A remote, authenticated user could use this flaw to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a '/..' in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 4.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 · 4AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE not specified