CVE-2015-5345: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 18.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Mapper component in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.30, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 processes redirects before considering security constraints and Filters, which allows remote attackers to determine the existence of a directory via a URL that lacks a trailing / (slash) character.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.4 only; version 6.0.10 only; version 6.0.11 only; …
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2016-02-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.