CVE-2025-49124
Apache Tomcat installer for Windows has an untrusted search path vulnerability
8.4
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.18%
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. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.8, 10.1.42 or 9.0.106, which fix the issue.
How to fix CVE-2025-49124
To remediate CVE-2025-49124, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 9.0.107 or later
- —upgrade to 11.0.8 or later
- —upgrade to 11.0.8 or later
- —upgrade to 11.0.8 or later
Is CVE-2025-49124 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- >= 9.0.23, < 9.0.107, >= 10.1.0, < 10.1.42, >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.9
- >= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8
- >= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8
- >= 11.0.0-M1, < 11.0.8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |