CVE-2025-55752
HighSummary
A Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat allows attackers to manipulate the request URI, potentially bypassing security constraints, including protections for /WEB-INF/ and /META-INF/. If PUT requests are enabled, malicious files could be uploaded, leading to remote code execution.
Risk Assessment
Organizations may face serious threats, including unauthorized access to sensitive resources and the potential for remote code execution, which could result in data loss or system takeover.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update Apache Tomcat to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. Additionally, consider restricting PUT request access to trusted users and monitoring logs for potential attack attempts.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.0.M11 through 9.0.108, and affected versions 8.5.6 through 8.5.100.
Original NVD description (English source)
Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. The fix for bug 60013 introduced a regression where the rewritten URL was normalized before it was decoded. This introduced the possibility that, for rewrite rules that rewrite query parameters to the URL, an attacker could manipulate the request URI to bypass security constraints including the protection for /WEB-INF/ and /META-INF/. If PUT requests were also enabled then malicious files could be uploaded leading to remote code execution. PUT requests are normally limited to trusted users and it is considered unlikely that PUT requests would be enabled in conjunction with a rewrite that manipulated the URI. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.0.M11 through 9.0.108. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.6 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Use