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CVE-2007-5461

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.0.0 through 4.0.6, 4.1.0, 5.0.0, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.14,…

Low3.5Public exploitEPSS 39.7%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.0.0 through 4.0.6, 4.1.0, 5.0.0, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.14, under certain configurations, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a WebDAV write request that specifies an entity with a SYSTEM tag.

Public exploit

A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit or proof of concept: anyone can try it against an unpatched system.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By redhat

  2. Published

  3. · 17 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2007-5461, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Low3.5AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
39.7% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (72)

Sources

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