Is CVE-2008-2938 being actively exploited?

CVE-2008-2938 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2008-2938?

CVE-2008-2938 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2008-2938

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 99.7%EU EUVD

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 version.

Key facts

CVSS score: 4.3 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-22
EPSS score: 99.7% (100th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2022-4516)
Published: August 13, 2008
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-4516 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

apache / tomcat

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31639(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31865(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31891(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32120(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32266(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33797(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/37297(Broken Link)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4148(Third Party Advisory)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216(Third Party Advisory)
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-401.htm(Third Party Advisory)
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/343355(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:188(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0648.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0862.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0864.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securenetwork.it/ricerca/advisory/download/SN-2009-02.txt(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495318/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507729/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30633(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020665(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2343(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2823(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0320(Third Party Advisory)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44411(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10587(Tool Signature)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6229(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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