CVE-2025-49124 | 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-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.

Published: 2025-06-16 Last update: 2025-10-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-49124 is rated Moderate Risk (50.2/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.24%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-49124

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-12 0.06% 0.24% +0.18%
2 2026-03-12 0.02% 0.06% +0.04%
3 2025-06-17 — 0.02% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-49124

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.4 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.5 5.9 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-49124

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-49124

GHSA-42wg-hm62-jcwg · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Apache Tomcat installer for Windows has an untrusted search path vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-49124

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-49124 unimportant priority: Debian including 3 source packages (tomcat10, tomcat11, tomcat9), 12 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 12. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-49124
suse high CVE-2025-49124 severity important: SUSE including 24 source package names (tomcat, tomcat-admin-webapps, …), 208 product×package rows across 25 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, … (25 product lines)): Known Not Affected 208. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49124/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-49124 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (tomcat10, tomcat11, tomcat9), 17 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, upstream): not-affected 10, DNE 5, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-49124

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-49124

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apache tomcat >= 9.0.23, < 9.0.106 cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache tomcat >= 10.1.0, < 10.1.42 cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache tomcat >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.8 cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-49124

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