CVE-2008-2370: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 52.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 a RequestDispatcher is used, performs path normalization before removing the query string from the URI, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a request parameter.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 4.1.5 only; …

Published 2008-08-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.