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
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
46.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-426
Status
published
Products (4)
apache/tomcat
9.0.23 - 9.0.106
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat
11.0.0-M1 - 11.0.8Maven
org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina
11.0.0-M1 - 11.0.8Maven
org.apache.tomcat.embed/tomcat-embed-core
11.0.0-M1 - 11.0.8Maven
Published
Jun 16, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026