{"id":"CVE-2007-0450","published":"2007-03-16T22:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-07T12:19:30Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x before 5.5.22 and 6.x before 6.0.10, when using…","vendor":null,"product":null,"tier":"core","eol":null,"description":{"text":"Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x before 5.5.22 and 6.x before 6.0.10, when using certain proxy modules (mod_proxy, mod_rewrite, mod_jk), allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. 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