CVE-2007-0450 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-0450
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Description: Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x before 5.5.22 and 6.x before 6.0.10, when using certain proxy modules (mod_proxy, mod_rewrite, mod_jk), allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence with combinations of (1) "/" (slash), (2) "\" (backslash), and (3) URL-encoded backslash (%5C) characters in the URL, which are valid separators in Tomcat but not in Apache.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/32988 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_5_sr.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239312-1 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2446 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA26660 Secunia Advisory: SA26235 Secunia Advisory: SA25106 Secunia Advisory: SA25280 Secunia Advisory: SA24732 Secunia Advisory: SA27037 Secunia Advisory: SA28365 Secunia Advisory: SA30908 Secunia Advisory: SA30899 Secunia Advisory: SA33668 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0327.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0360.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html MLIST http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000003.html MISC http://www.sec-consult.com/287.html http://www.sec-consult.com/fileadmin/Advisories/20070314-0-apache_tomcat_directory_traversal.txt MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:241 HP http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-03.xml CONFIRM http://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=197540 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-206.htm http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/01/23.aspx http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200702e.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/462791/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500396/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500412/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485938/100/0/threaded BID 25159 22960 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html

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