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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 13, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2008-2938

CVE-2008-2938

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in 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 allowLinking and UTF-8 are enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via encoded directory traversal sequences in the URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2370. NOTE: versions earlier than 6.0.18 were reported affected, but the vendor advisory lists 6.0.16 as the last affected version.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.apache.tomcat:tomcatMaven
>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.394.1.39
org.apache.tomcat:tomcatMaven
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.275.5.27
org.apache.tomcat:tomcatMaven
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.186.0.18

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