CVE-2025-49124
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.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.4
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.37%
- CWE
- CWE-426
- Published
- 2025-06-16
- Last modified
- 2026-09-17
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat
Weakness type
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