Directory Traversal

Tomcat is vulnerable to directory traversal. The methods getResource, getResourceAsStream, and getResourcePaths in ServletContext do not correctly validate that the paths given to them do not contain "/..". However the impact of the directory traversal is limited as "/../" is rejected. This allow...

Debian DSA-3428-1 : tomcat8 - security update

It was discovered that malicious web applications could use the Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as expressions were evaluated within a privileged code section. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 6.0.44

Low: Denial of Service CVE-2014-0230 When a response for a request with a request body is returned to the user agent before the request body is fully read, by default Tomcat swallows the remaining request body so that the next request on the connection may be processed. There was no limit to the...

tomcat -- multiple vulnerabilities

Apache Software Foundation reports: Low: Denial of Service CVE-2014-0230 When a response for a request with a request body is returned to the user agent before the request body is fully read, by default Tomcat swallows the remaining request body so that the next request on the connection may be...

Preemptive Protection against HP Performance Manager Apache Tomcat Policy Bypass

A vulnerability exists in HP Performance Manager, a web-based analysis and visualization tool that analyzes performance trends of applications, systems, and services. HP Performance Manager incorporates Apache Tomcat 5 to help serve custom web applications. The vulnerability is due to insufficien...