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  "id": "crds:cve-2025-24813",
  "revision": 1,
  "title": "Apache Tomcat — Path Equivalence Leads to Code Execution",
  "summary": "Tomcat treats two spellings of the same filename as different, so on a server that accepts uploads an attacker can place content that is later read back and run.",
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