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CVE-2025-55752 Public exploit High · 7.5 EPSS 64.4%

Apache Tomcat: Directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT is enabled

Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tomcat

Official description · CVE.org

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. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45 or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue.

Breakdown
30.1 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) appeared 1 day after disclosure. No confirmed exploitation is recorded.

  1. Disclosedday 0
  2. Public exploit codePoC-in-GitHub+1 day

7 fixes in tomcat over 15 months. The latest fix listed for tomcat is 11.0.15.

Fixes in tomcatMaven package, by fixed version. Earlier and later fixes in the same package, not necessarily the same bug.

  1. 11.0.1CVE-2024-5231818 Nov 2024
  2. 11.0.2CVE-2024-5467717 Dec 2024
  3. 11.0.8CVE-2025-4912416 Jun 2025
  4. 11.0.11CVE-2025-5575227 Oct 2025
  5. 11.0.11CVE-2025-5575427 Oct 2025
  6. 11.0.12CVE-2025-6179527 Oct 2025
  7. 11.0.15CVE-2025-6661417 Feb 2026Latest listed

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

Am I affected? What do I upgrade to?

From GitHub Security Advisories and OSV

3 packages in 1 ecosystem. Main package: org.apache.tomcat:tomcat.

Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcatGHSA-wmwf-9ccg-fff5

Upgrade to 11.0.11 or later

Set the version to 11.0.11 or later in your pom.xml or build.gradle.

The first fix for CVE-2025-55752.

Affected versions, by release line

If you runUpgrade to
11.0.0-M1 up to 11.0.1111.0.11
10.1.0-M1 up to 10.1.4510.1.45
9.0.0-M11 up to 9.0.1099.0.109
8.5.6 through 8.5.100No fix published

“Up to” means the second version is the fix and is not affected.

Other packages that bundle this code (2)

Forks, repackagings and products that include the affected code. Each has its own fixed version.

  • Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina
    Affected: 11.0.0-M1 up to 11.0.11; 10.1.0-M1 up to 10.1.45; 9.0.0-M11 up to 9.0.109; 8.5.6 through 8.5.100Upgrade to 11.0.11 or later (older lines: 10.1.45, 9.0.109)
  • Mavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core
    Affected: 11.0.0-M1 up to 11.0.11; 10.1.0-M1 up to 10.1.45; 9.0.0-M11 up to 9.0.109; 8.5.6 through 8.5.100Upgrade to 11.0.11 or later (older lines: 10.1.45, 9.0.109)

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What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

References

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