[GHSA-42wg-hm62-jcwg] Apache Tomcat installer for Windows has an untrusted search path vulnerability - #9698
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This advisory's
vulnerabilities[]list is misattributed. CVE-2025-49124 is scoped to theApache Tomcat installer for Windows (
icacls.exeuntrusted search path duringinstallation) — per Apache's own advisory:
The Windows installer is a separate, Windows-only distribution artifact. It is not part of,
and is never invoked by, the Maven-published libraries.
Currently (incorrectly) mapped to:
org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreorg.apache.tomcat:tomcatorg.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaNone of these Maven artifacts contain or execute the Windows installer, so they cannot be
affected by this vulnerability regardless of version or platform.
Requested change: remove all three Maven
purlmappings from this advisory. If GHSA'sschema has no ecosystem for native Windows installers, this advisory should carry no
package-manager
vulnerabilities[]entries at all — only the affected-product versionranges already listed in the text (9.0.23–9.0.105, 10.1.0–10.1.41, 11.0.0-M1–11.0.7), which
correctly describe the installer build for those releases, not the jars.
Reference confirming this:
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_9.0.106 — explicitly lists
the impacted component as "Tomcat installer for Windows".