CVE-2025-49124

HIGH

Apache Tomcat < 9.0.106 - Untrusted Search Path

Title source: rule

Description

Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Apache Tomcat installer for Windows. During installation, the Tomcat installer for Windows used icacls.exe without specifying a full path. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.7, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.41, from 9.0.23 through 9.0.105. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 through 8.5.100 and 7.0.95 through 7.0.109. Other EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.8, 10.1.42 or 9.0.106, which fix the issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.4
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-426
Status published

Affected Products (4)

apache/tomcat < 9.0.106
org.apache.tomcat.embed/tomcat-embed-core < 11.0.8Maven
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat < 11.0.8Maven
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina < 11.0.8Maven

Timeline

Published Jun 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026