CVE-2007-1860: Apache Tomcat Jk Web Server Connector

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mod_jk in Apache Tomcat JK Web Server Connector 1.2.x before 1.2.23 decodes request URLs within the Apache HTTP Server before passing the URL to Tomcat, which allows remote attackers to access protected pages via a crafted prefix JkMount, possibly involving double-encoded .. (dot dot) sequences and directory traversal, a related issue to CVE-2007-0450.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat Jk Web Server Connector: up to and including 1.2.22

Published 2007-05-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.