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🛡️ CVE-2025-49124 — tomcat

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-426 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Tomcat: exe side-loading via icalcs.exe in Tomcat installer for Windows

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 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: Present — the target has to be in a particular state for the attack to work.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-49124 is classified as CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path. The product resolves a library or executable using a search path an attacker can influence.

Affected software

CVE-2025-49124 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (from 9.0.23 up to 9.0.106)
  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (from 9.0.23 up to 9.0.106)
  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina (from 9.0.23 up to 9.0.106)
  • tomcat

Timeline and source

Published on 16 June 2025 and last revised on 29 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
tomcat.apache.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path) in other software:

CVE-2025-49124 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CWE CWE-426
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-06-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-10-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 9.0.23 9.0.106
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina 9.0.23 9.0.106
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core 9.0.23 9.0.106
tomcat — —

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