CVE catalog
CVE-2015-5174
Security update for tomcat
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 12.55% · Oct 25, 2026
Directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.65, and 8.x before 8.0.27 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. (slash dot dot) in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call, as demonstrated by the $CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | tomcat6 | 14.04 | 6.0.37-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat6 | 14.04 | 6.0.39-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat6 | 14.04 | 6.0.39-1ubuntu0.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | 14.04 | 7.0.42-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | 14.04 | 7.0.47-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | 14.04 | 7.0.50-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | 14.04 | 7.0.52-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | 14.04 | 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | 14.04 | 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | 14.04 | 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.6 | fixed |
| Suse | tomcat6 | linux enterprise server 11 sp4 | 6.0.45-0.50.1 | fixed |
| Suse | tomcat6 | linux enterprise server for sap applications 11 sp4 | 6.0.45-0.50.1 | fixed |
| Suse | tomcat | linux enterprise server 12 | 7.0.68-7.6.1 | fixed |
| Suse | tomcat | linux enterprise server for sap applications 12 | 7.0.68-7.6.1 | fixed |
| Suse | tomcat | linux enterprise server 12 sp1 | 8.0.32-3.1 | fixed |
| Suse | tomcat | linux enterprise server for sap applications 12 sp1 | 8.0.32-3.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | tomcat6 | deb | 14.04 | 6.0.39-1ubuntu0.1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5174 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | tomcat7 | deb | 14.04 | 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.6 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5174 | Not reported |
| Suse | tomcat6 | rpm | linux enterprise server 11 sp4 | 6.0.45-0.50.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0839-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | tomcat6 | rpm | linux enterprise server for sap applications 11 sp4 | 6.0.45-0.50.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0839-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | tomcat | rpm | linux enterprise server 12 | 7.0.68-7.6.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0822-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | tomcat | rpm | linux enterprise server for sap applications 12 | 7.0.68-7.6.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0822-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | tomcat | rpm | linux enterprise server 12 sp1 | 8.0.32-3.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0769-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | tomcat | rpm | linux enterprise server for sap applications 12 sp1 | 8.0.32-3.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0769-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/rhsa-2016_2599.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0769-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0822-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0839-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5174]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2015/cve-2015-5174.json]
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