{"id":"CVE-2008-2938","aliases":[],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2938","summary":"Apache Tomcat Directory Traversal vulnerability","details":"Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.37, 5.5.0 through 5.5.26, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16, when allowLinking and UTF-8 are enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via encoded directory traversal sequences in the URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2370.  NOTE: versions earlier than 6.0.18 were reported affected, but the vendor advisory lists 6.0.16 as the last affected 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